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...Then, in October 1957. Sputnik I struck the U.S. a traumatic psychological wallop. Alarmed voices warned that Russia was speedily wiping out the U.S.'s scientific and technological lead. The climax of the national inferiority complex came in 1960, when the U.S. public became convinced that a "missile gap" confronted the nation, and when John F. Kennedy ran for President insisting that "our power relative to that of the Communists is declining...
Today the cold-war scales no longer appear to be teetering in such terrible balance. That missile gap proved to be imaginary. Soviet failures in agriculture made it plain that Russia lags far behind the U.S. in overall economic performance. Even more devastating to Communism's prestige as an economic system was the economic disintegration in Red China that became evident in 1961, with widespread famine and declining industrial output, despite the government's merciless mobilization of people and resources. Communist China's economic disasters seemed all the more glaring in contrast with the prosperity of such...
...alert reporter noticed an unusual gap in the always busy schedule of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54. It was blank from May 9 to 31. True, confirmed Press Secretary Robert L. Mc-Manus, he knew of no "official activities" for the Governor between those dates...
...giant minds of the television industry took thought. Time-wise, there was one big gap: from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. the nation's screens were pitch grey. Manhattan's station WCBS-TV, the biggest single moneymaker in the country, took the problem in hand, ran it up a couple of flagpoles, and brought back an old glory of a solution: the Late Late Late Late Show...
...twelfth largest gross national product, and it takes up nearly half of South America; yet Americans as a whole know little of this huge nation's origins and history, its culture and personality. Out of admiration as much as acumen, Publisher Alfred A. Knopf has filled the gap by publishing two volumes of the classic social history of Brazil written by Gilberto Freyre, 63, Brazil's great scholar...