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Words were one Democratic weapon of the week; maneuver was another. In the Senate Johnson staked another claim to being the Great Initiator by introducing his own civil rights bill, similar to a measure the Justice Department is preparing. Special Johnson point: the U.S. should set up a federal community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Rooms with a View | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

It was a historic measure of Texan Johnson's genius for maneuver that 16 moderate Southern and border-state Senators joined him in voting for strengthening the Senate's anti-filibuster rule. And Compromiser Johnson was by no means guilty of overstatement when he said, just before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Maintaining Reason | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Primates First. No man will be risked in this dangerous maneuver until a long series of tests has been completed successfully. First a series of instrument-carrying capsules will be fired to gradually increasing heights. Then primates (the NASA no longer calls them apes or monkeys) will get lengthening rides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Capsule to Earth | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

For the first time since the days when Trotsky led the opposition to Stalin in the '20s, Pravda last week suddenly published the proceedings of the Soviet Communist Party's 253-man Central Committee Plenum while it was going on. By this precedent-smashing maneuver, Nikita Khrushchev sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Russia's Big Lag | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

The simplest maneuver for a sailing spaceship, says Dr. Cotter, will be escape from the earth. The satellite will be placed in an orbit in the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun (see diagram). After spreading its sail, the satellite will be designed to have a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trade Wind in Space | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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