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...over minor matters to mighty blasts of anger on the basic tenets of Marxist-Leninist practice. Now Peking's outright challenge to Moscow's leadership of Marx's world has become a momentous family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
...many, the exchanges at the President's news conference last week must have been a bit baffling. A reporter asked about "Project Rover." The President's answer cited "Nerva" and "Rift.'' Despite the lingo, the reply carried considerable significance for the future of U.S. exploration in space...
Project Rover, one of the nation's most ambitious space programs, is designed to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could carry man to the moon or beyond. Nerva is the engine itself. Rift the vehicle that Nerva will push. President Kennedy had just returned from a tour of Jackass Flats, 90 miles out of Las Vegas, where work on Rover is under way. He had gone because New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson, former chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and now a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, had warned...
Since Russia pulled back in Cuba and the Red Chinese marched into India, the Sino-Soviet split had widened into a chasm. It will probably remain unbridgeable for a long time to come. In Belgrade, U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan predicted that the rift "is on the verge of coming into the open, in the same way that Moscow's fight with Belgrade...
Though some key L.F.A. officers remain on the loose, the teams draw big crowds throughout the Rift Valley, where Mau Mau was born. This month, 2,000 Kikuyu have been de-oathed. Said one European official hopefully: "I think we've caught this one in time." But there were those who wondered whether the de-oathing would take. "Other tribes play football on Saturday afternoons," said one skeptical white magistrate, "but the Kikuyu take oaths...