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Stronger criticism of the lagging U.S. military space program came from Nevada's Senator Howard W. Cannon, a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. In a speech roundly seconded by Arizona's Barry Goldwater, himself a major general in the Air Force Reserve, Cannon warned that U.S. security depends upon the military control of space, since "the U.S.S.R. space program is being directed toward attaining military dominance in the near-earth space envelope." McNamara phoned Cannon for an appointment, slipped up to Capitol Hill for an hour and a half of serious discussion about the problem. Next...
They love wild cards in Nevada - and they've got a whole deckful in this year's game for Governor. Thus, while Incumbent Democrat Grant Sawyer may be the most competent of the lot, he seems about as exciting as a two-eyed jack...
...making his first try for state wide office, Sawyer won by a surprising 17,000 votes - which, in Nevada, is a landslide. Since then, he has given the state an efficient, scandal-free administration, tightened control over gambling, attracted light industry. That record should be enough for his election unless one of those wild cards takes...
...present Governor is doing and sing too." A proven musician (he wrote The Lonesome Road, When My Sugar Walks Down the Street, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?), he hopes to become a smash political hit with a platform plugging $100-a-month pensions for every Nevada resident over 65, to be financed by boat-race sweepstakes on Nevada lakes. He also urges that all the candidates take lie-detector tests to see if they will keep their promises...
...voting for cloture, he could at least persuade them not to vote at all. Mansfield scheduled the vote for a day when a few anti-cloture Senators had good excuses to be away from Washington-Arkansas' William Fulbright found that he had a speaking engagement in New York, Nevada's Alan Bible and Arizona's Carl Hayden were on business trips home. At voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture...