Nixon Builds a New Coalition For Change
Richard Nixon argues a coalition of Southerners, black militants, liberals and Republicans is forming to oppose costly welfare. He urges black ownership and private enterprise with capital access and job training to empower the ghetto while appealing to limited government and state and local initiative. Governors Rockefeller and mayors Lindsay signal a shift toward local and private leadership.
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New York Times
Washington
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Portland
Ore
America
Robert Kennedy
South
Sen. Fulbright
McCarthy-Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Nelson Rockefeller
John Lindsay
Rockefeller
Greatest failure of nerve in space history
Arthur C Clarke argues that a 1945 misjudgment about long range rockets and intercontinental weaponry marked history's greatest failure of nerve. He traces misreadies from Cleator's 1936 book to Churchill, Bush, and Woolley, noting how optimism shifted after Alamagordo and Sputnik.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Harper and Row
World Book Science Service
British Interplanetary Society
P. E. Cleator
England
Nature
Dwight Eisenhower
U. S
Astronomer Royal
Richard van der Riet Woolley
Sputnik
Wooley
Vannevar Bush
Senate
Churchill
Lord Cherwell
House of Lords
Almagordo
Bush
Pentagon
U.S
Congress
ICMMs Far In The Future Analysis And Forecast
The piece argues that future capabilities become real if desired enough, citing a 200-ton rocket built by Russians despite not needing it militarily. It warns against nerve failure and urges following technical extrapolations to their logical end, while noting faith and imagination can precede prediction. Next: beyond logic and unpredictable discoveries.
Garbage dumps become metal mines for value from waste
U S interior bureau of mines scientists found gold silver and other metals in Washington D C city dumps. A ton of ashes yielded about 14 dollars of metal and nationwide yearly losses could reach around 7 million dollars. Recovery is costly but could fund better garbage disposal and support manufacturers or government needs.
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U.S. Department of the Interiors Bureau of Mines
Washington D.C
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