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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would be wise to accept the Soviet plan for a year or two, because even the best of systems would require a year or two to install adequate control stations. And in the next few years, scientists might actually develop foolproof detectors, or the Soviets might give a bit more on inspection. Most important, the Soviets had apparently accepted the principle of inspection (albeit with precious few specifics), and inspection is the starting point for any realistic system of disarmament. By making this start-at an admitted risk-the U.S., they held, would win respect among the uncommitted nations...
Again, the results were hardly what Jimmy Hoffa could have hoped for. Campaigning hard in Wisconsin, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hubert Humphrey unhappily and often observed that he had every bit as much right to rate Hoffa's enmity as Jack Kennedy. And many an unlisted Senator and Representative felt downright injured at being left off Hoffa's purge sheet. For it was clear and becoming clearer that having Jimmy Hoffa and his hoodlum henchmen going after a politician's head could be a pretty good way for that politician to stay in office...
...landing of the boys in San Francisco, where they got ceremonial plywood keys to the city from Mayor George Christopher (just back from a visit to Moscow), were outfitted in new clothes, filled with Cokes, and taken on a tour. (They proved grateful but reticent heroes, and a bit overwhelmed.) Khrushchev's cables to them were also printed ("We are proud and filled with admiration"), as well as his cable to President Eisenhower ("The gallant conduct of the American seamen is an expression of those friendly relations that are developing between our two countries...
...small radio beeping steadily, long after bigger satellites lost their voices. Tracked by its radio signals, the "grapefruit's" motions in its orbit have given invaluable information about the earth's slightly bumpy gravitational field, and about the shape of the earth itself. Last week another bit of information came down from the little satellite. There was a slight, unexplained wandering in its long-studied orbit. After much calculation, Dr. Peter Munsen and other orbit experts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reached their conclusion: Vanguard I was being blown off course by pressure of sunlight...
American Heritage is also marketing a new book line for juveniles, intended to bag history buffs in their formative years. The teen-agers are responding every bit as enthusiastically as their elders; the second book in this line (Indians of the Plains) has already gone out to 25,000 subscribers in advance of the April 15 publication date, and 50,000 more copies are in the hands of bookstores. Says Parton: "It's mass historia...