Air Force Missile Short Of Target
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(Compiled from United Press)
The Air Force blasted the forerunner of its moon rocket spectacularly into the sky at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Wednesday night, but there were indications that it fell short of its target area in the ocean 6,300 miles away.
Scientists were still trying to determine from electronic data received during the flight of the missile—a combination of the Air Force Thor and a modified second stage Navy Vanguard—just where it landed. It appeared that the answer might not be known for several days.
In New York, Gen. Curtis LeMay, Air Force vice chief of staff, said today that the threat of global atomic war is increasing "with every passing day."
Meanwhile, the Navy is readying a complete Vanguard rocket for a try at putting a fourth U.S. satellite into space to measure X-ray activity in space around the globe.
Army and Navy chiefs contended, however, that the nuclear "stalemate" between the United States and Russia makes limited wars more likely than an all-out conflict.
President Wants Curve
The military leaders gave the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. many strong opinions that underlie so-called service bickering in Washington. President Eisenhower hopes to cure the feuding with his defense reorganization plan which calls for truly unified combat forces and strategic planning.
In Fort Campbell, Ky., freak guts of wind were blamed today for the deaths of five paratroopers, fatally dragged by their billowing parachutes in a mass jump of 1,300 men
President Wants Cure
More than 100 others were hospitalized after the jump yesterday. Some of the dragged paratroopers were traveling at such speeds that spectators were unable to overtake their chutes and cut them loose.
In Washington, the House Foreign Affairs Committee was expected to wind up action on President Eisenhower's foreign aid request today after lopping off 339 million dollars to head off deeper cuts on the House floor.
The committee took that total from the President's original 3.9 billion dollar request.
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Expect Postage Approval Congress appeared likely today to put its seal of approval on a 4-cent postage rate for both local and out-of-town letters.
The Senate-House conference committee rebuffed President Eisenhower yesterday by rejecting
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Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield issued a statement saying that a penny cut in the administration proposal "would scuttle President Eisenhower's proposed two billion dollar postal modernization program" that would provide jobs for thousands of workers.
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the administration's proposal for a 5-cent rate for out-of-town letters.
The second round of the Intramural Speech Contest was won by Robert L. Driscoll, Lawrence freshman, representing Sigma Chi fraternity. The general subject was informative speeches.
Driscoll Wins Second Round
Thursday, April 24, 1958 University Daily Kansan
Second-place winner was Raymond Dean, Kansas City, Mo. senior, representing Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and third-place went to Lizzie Dawson, Mukupen, India freshman, representing Watkins Hall.
There is a tie between the Beta Theta Pi and the Sigma Chi fraternities in the men's division, and a tie between Corbin-North College and Watkins halls in the women's division.
The final round, involving arguments on the subject "Contemporary Problems in American Education," will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 102 Strong.
The Pentagon, the world's largest office building, also has the world's largest private exchange switchboard. Staffed by approximately 200 persons, its 44,000 telephones are connected by 160,000 miles of cables, handling 280,000 calls a day.
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