National Affairs: Countdown

Some politicos may get high blood pressure out of the 1960 campaign, but New York's U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating, master of well-turned satire, is not likely to be one of them. His aim (with his own term going on through 1964) is to get some fun out of it—particularly at the Democrats' expense. Last week, in a speech before a Republican fund-raising dinner in Danbury, Conn., Republican Keating reviewed "the Democratic Astronautical Missile Program, familiarly known to those of us in the scientific world as DAMP," offered his own tongue-in-cheek countdown on...

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