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...Republicans must be aware of this. Their opposition to the President's program thus looks like attempt either to block the country's wishes, or to regain power by scaring the populace out of its new-found sanity with talk of threats to phony basic tenets. In either case, this is "playing politics" with a vengeance...
...dear. In 1957 Sukarno brutally expropriated $1.5 billion in Dutch investments in Indonesia and expelled 50,000 Dutch residents. In addition, the Dutch government has had to sink nearly $30 million a year into New Guinea just to keep it economically afloat. Because of Indonesia's determination to regain its "lost" territory, Sukarno devotes a large part of his annual budget to arms, thus further wrecking the wobbly economy of his island nation...
...Kennedy content to go down in history as the President who denied air support to anti-Communists fighting desperately to regain their homes in Cuba, but gave quick air support to forces slaughtering anti-Communists fighting desperately to protect their homes in Katanga...
...almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin's rim are not frightened by the possibility of a misguided spaceship landing in the middle of town. No other spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin, has the same natural advantages, existing facilities, and willingness...
...only big surprise of the meet came in the 220 yard freestyle, where Bill Zentgraf turned in his best performance of the season only to lose to Army sophomore Bill Landgraf. Landgraf built up a one-stroke lead which Zentgraf could not regain, to win the race...