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...These wide-spread effects of the lunar debate would probably have been avoided if the Administration had not begun the race to the moon in 1961 in the way it did. When the National Space and Aeronautics Council first advised the President on U.S. needs in space, it proposed a wide range of space research and development. Kennedy expressed his support for such general technological research, but wondered how to get Congressional approval of such large Budget requests. The Space Council suggested focusing development on any "arbitrary target"--such as the moon or a manned space station...
...Brandeis senior said yesterday that the campus is "about to be seized with panic." He charged that the university police, aiding in the investigation, are responsible for wide-spread fear. Apparently they summoned students for questioning yesterday directly from classes, rather than contacting them at their rooms...
That shock, however, caused wide-spread comment and even some panic. Its epicenter was located about 60 miles northeast of Cambridge, and it was felt as far away as Maine...
Indeed, the large federal deficits and the tax reduction program make it more difficult to put across any speeding programs. But to blame the President for the failure in most unjust. The opposition to federal intervention, the segregation issue, the burden of the military, the wide-spread fear of the large deficit, the church issues--all of these, not the President's lack of interest, explain the slow progress. Even with the support of Senator Taft, and before segregation became an issue, the government failed to put across a federal aid to education bill in the late 1940's. Seymour...
...fear of Southern voters or their representatives that dissuades him from doing so, he is choosing the most short-sighted kind of expediency. All moral arguments aside, there is not even surface calm in the South at present. If the Government does not act soon, violence will be wide-spread...