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...philosophies, Dirksen simply sets out to satisfy. "What you do," he explains, "is to see how much common ground there is on which every member of the party can stand. You note what the differences might be. When that's been done, then you try to close the gap, and this is different with every situation that arises...
...race for freedom in Africa, whites' concessions have seldom kept up with blacks' demands. The gap is perilously apparent in vast (150,000 sq. mi.) Southern Rhodesia, the only self-governing member of the troubled Central African Federation. The government has softened harsh apartheid rules and promised Africans a few seats in the legislature next year. But the blacks are not satisfied. They outnumber the whites 3,000,000 to 220,000, insist on "one man, one vote"−now. Since mid-July, they have pushed their cause by attacking police patrols, stoning motorists, cutting telephone lines...
...speeds increase. The faster planes are traveling, the less time pilots have to avoid a threatened collision. Once two high-speed jets on a collision course get within a mile of each other, a crash is inevitable: at 600 m.p.h. they will close the one-mile gap in three seconds...
...make me feel secure?" "I hope there won't be any war, but let us be prepared." "Anybody who believes that the United States of America doesn't have a bright future should have his brain examined." "I don't admit there is a gap. I'm a little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it." "I was born a good child. Had I lost both of my parents at the age of three or four, I still might have become a good man." "I quit running at 95." "It was just...
...technical feat. " NASA Director James Webb insisted that Americans would still be the first men on the moon. Dwight Eisenhower, who recently deplored "the mad effort to win a stunt race " to the moon, seemed removed from the troubling reality: "I don't admit there is a[space] gap. I'm a little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it. " A Different Feeling. But much more will be heard. The official U.S. position is that the benefit of space exploration will come from extending man's scientific frontiers; despite the advice...