• Mr. Oginga Odinga, African member of the Kenya Legislative Council, declared in Nairobi the other day, pleading the cause of Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta, “I think it is for the African people to decide what type of life they are going to live in their own country. If they decide savagery is the most fitting thing, then they will decide on it.”
• In the three months since the fall of the Summit a burst of scientific achievements has shattered the Communist-promoted image of the U.S. as “second-rate” in space. The U.S. has: 1) sent an Atlas missile 9,000 miles—1,000 miles farther than the Russians’ best distance; 2) launched Midas II, at the time our biggest satellite, into orbit around the earth; 3) held a successful ground-test preview of Saturn, the mightiest of the projected space rockets; 4) fired a rocket designed to torpedo nuclear submarines; 5) fired the Thor missile, whose rocket carried not one but two satellites (we can now fire “satellites by the bundle”) ; 6) launched Polaris from under water, the first missile to be fired from a submerged submarine, and the basis of the world’s only invulnerable deterrent system; 7) placed into orbit the communications balloon, Echo I, the largest man-made object ever put into space; and 8) sent an Air Force test pilot 25 miles into space, setting a new altitude record for a piloted craft. Whew!
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