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High Point. Despite his surprise at the report's severity, NASA Administrator James Webb did not dispute its findings. Instead, he accentuated the positive. "The board has found error, but it has also found the capability to overcome error," he said. Displaying a flash of the evangelical fervor that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Blind Spot | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...poverty war, where the fight must be won if the nation's effort to eliminate economic deprivation is to be considered effective. Of 115 federal programs designed to fight poverty, Ladero is eligible for 112. Several million federal dollars have been funnelled in the city and surrounding Webb County...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...local power structure may also have made itself felt through Philip Kazan, brother of the congressman and mentor of the Kazen faction in Webb County's political machine...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Disillusioned Fabian. Extremists like Muggeridge are usually in revolt against a conservative, straitlaced childhood. But Muggeridge rebelled against a conventional left-wing upbringing. His father was a Fabian Socialist; his mother was a proper working-class girl. He married Kitty Dobbs, niece of Fabian Founder Beatrice Webb. When he journeyed to India to teach English, he urged his students to rebel against British rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Dance of the Iconoclast | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...publicity-hungry House Committee on Un-American Activities and the recently subpoenaed militant Communist leaders deserve each other. When I think of the way these hearings were conducted. I see red. If HUAC is the epitome of Americanism, then fly me to the moon! CHARLES G. WEBB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1966 | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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