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...Manhattan studios, lacked diplomacy. Helffrich, just out of Penn State, was appointed guide in charge of tact. Except for a wartime tour of duty with the Navy, he has been with NBC ever since, and believes that he is still dealing largely in tact. Some of his decisions depend on sensitivity (the words, offensive to Negroes, of such Stephen Foster songs as Old Black Joe and Massa's in de Cold Ground have not recently been heard on NBC); some depend on horse sense (in the past year the word "hell" has been approved on ten shows, the word...
Balloon Tanks. The vehicle, Rosen told the National Capital Astronomers, will be a three-stage rocket 72 ft. long and 45 in. in maximum diameter. It will have no fins, but will depend for steering on its movable rocket motor and an array of small gas-jets. The tanks holding the propellants (liquid oxygen and gasoline for the first stage, nitric acid and dimethyl-hydrazine for the second) will be thin-walled to save weight, and will have little strength when empty. When they are full and highly pressurized with helium, they will become as rigid as auto tires...
...Crimson junior varsity will also race M.I.T. only, at 5:30 p.m. Its chances against Tech are less sure than are the varsity's. The outcome will depend on Tech's depth in the 150-pound ranks. The freshman lightweights will race M.I.T. and Tabor Academy at 5 p.m. and the second '59 boats will meet Tech and Dartmouth...
Bureaucrats scan it for news of their own departments that may still be several memos away; except at the topmost layer, the city's 228,109 public servants depend mostly on the press for what they know about the Government and each other. Bigwigs examine the Post nervously to see how their speeches are played-or to find ideas for new ones. The Washington press corps studies it for tips, ideas and slants that often influence the 500,000 words that clack out of the capital every day to news media all around the world...
...adequacy and timeliness of our response will largely depend, I believe, on the development of a new or revamped American leadership that rejects the cynical assumption, which sometimes seems to be held by many American political leaders as well as by the leaders of the USSR, that modern Americans can be interested only in larger paychecks, faster cars, and more garish entertainment...