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Treated as a political problem, the confusion over the "moon shot" has stemmed from the huge gap between the professed goals of the Administration and Congress, and what their programs have actually accomplished. The House cut $612 million from the NASA appropriations bill last month but also reaffirmed its determination to race the Russians to the moon. Kennedy, in equally mysterious fashion offered to cooperate with the Russians at the United Nations, and then said his speech meant nothing when he returned to the White House. Neither the Administration nor Congress has made clear why the United States should reach...
...gall of words, their effects, begin to learn a folklore, a new language, how to sing and dance. Liberals to the contrary, this would be a struggle in itself, and she would have to be very honest and sincere and have talent. This is the white problem: the cultural gap that does exist. The solution is to be black, and if few make it, some do--and are effective...
...said that the increased earning power of Harvard students and the rise in available term-time employment made it possible for the Financial Aid office to gradually increase this "self-help" gap. Since 1950 the gap has risen from $450 to the present...
...Lift plane left Texas, a C-130 Hercules touched down at Sembach with the last 60 men of the 2nd Armored, nearly nine hours ahead of schedule. With the last arrivals on hand, the scattered units of the 2nd Armored began assembling for week-long maneuvers at Fulda Gap, a classical invasion route just across the border from Communist East Germany...
...problem seems to be that the terms of the argument, which have been established by Deans Monro and Watson, are not realistic, and that so long as they remain the guidelines for discussion there can be no real communication between different generations. The gap between how the Administration thinks undergraduates act and how they really do act is presently too great for sensitive legislation...