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...Administration held five National Security Council meetings in ten days. Newspaper headlines suggested that behind those closed doors last week the men of the New Frontier were debating about whether to send U.S. troops to Laos to halt the advancing Pathet Lao guerrillas. Said the Washington Post: KENNEDY, ADVISERS WEIGH INTERVENTION IN LAOS. In fact, nothing of the sort was happening: the NSC did not even consider U.S. military intervention in Laos as a serious alternative. In his inaugural address. President Kennedy had declared that the U.S. would "pay any price" to "assure the survival and success of liberty...
Reagan's exhortation to his audience: "Weigh the price we must pay in individual liberty and whether these programs qualify as things the people can't do for themselves. Then write to your Congressmen and Senators...
Gagarin said that weightlessness in orbit makes everything easier to do. "One's legs and arms weigh nothing. Objects float in the cabin. I did not sit in my chair as before, but hung in midair. While in the state of weightlessness, I ate and drank, and everything occurred just as it does on earth. I even worked in that condition. I wrote, jotting down my observations. My handwriting did not change, although the hand did not weigh anything, but I had to hold the notebook. Otherwise it would have floated away. I maintained communications over different channels...
...agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh about four times as much as the man-carrying cabins of U.S. Project Mercury...
...successful applicants are somewhat lower than popular conjecture has placed them. Although the College does not give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement...