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Early in the campaign, Quadros staged a spectacular maneuver. To get the nomination of the powerful National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), he had earlier agreed to accept the U.D.N. vice presidential candidate as his running mate. Suddenly he rejected the U.D.N.'s man and withdrew from the race. Confusion reigned...
Recognizing this, President John F. Kennedy went to meet Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna hoping to find some give in the Soviet position. Khrushchev would not budge. "This is a basic Soviet position and not negotiable," said Nikita firmly. He was frank to admit that it all began last year, when...
Shepard: Cap sep is coming out, and the turn-around has started. (This means that the capsule had freed itself and was ready to maneuver.)
...such project, long in the planning stage, is the construction of Dyna-Soar, a controllable, maneuverable space vehicle capable of skimming the atmosphere on hot, stubby wings and of landing on a chosen spot, not merely drifting down by parachute like the Vostok or Freedom 7. Now veteran rocketmen are talking of beating Dyna-Soar off the pad. They are suggesting a solid-fuel rocket with upper-stage rockets powerful enough to put the present X-15 into orbit. Long before the Russians get a true plane into space, the U.S. might have the X-15 circling the world. Once...
One of the long-standing difficulties of the Eisenhower Administration was its inability to persuade Congress to abolish the 4¼% interest ceiling on long-term (over five years) Government securities. The Kennedy Administration last week got around the problem deftly. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Attorney...