Milford chronicle., 1961-05-26
NIXON AND 1862

FOfmef vice PRESIDENT Richard Nixon
has said he would announce in the next
nine months whether he will be a can
didate for Governor in California The
latest indications on this subject, however
are that the former Vice President has
decided to make the race, if circumstances
work out properly.
More may be made known on this SUBJ
ject when Mr.. Nixon makes his swing into
the East and takes off the gloves for
the first time-in public speeches next
month. But in advance of this trip there
were positive signs, in California, that
Nixon was preparing to run.
One reason is the fact that California
political leaders have told the ex-Vice
President he has no choice. Mr.. Nixon is
assuming the leadership of the party in
California. AS the leader of the party
California aides are telling him, he will
be dead man if the party loses the
gubernatorial race in 1862 He will be
dead, they are saying, whether or not he
himself is the gubernatorial candidate
if the G. o. P. loses.
California eyes are on New York, in
this connection, and it is almost certain
that Governor Nelson Rockefeller will run
for reelection in New York. His reelection
is considered likely.
This will almost certainly give the New
Yorker a momentum that must be offset
by Nixon comeback" victory. That is
why Nixon is thought to be much closer
to a decision to run, in 1862, than he was
IN December and January. Another reason
is the detection of several Nixon men, to
the Rockefeller cause, men high in party
circles of the nation
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OUR. .ASTRONAUT
Now that we have successfully fired a
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down again, we can say to the world we
have done it-too. That is the public re-
lations and propaganda value of the recent
astronaut flight from Cape Canaveral
AS for the scientific and technical value
<Of the flight, the successful astronaut mis-
sion's significance is less clear What the
flight entailed, actually, was the firing of
an old-type (Redstone) rocket, in the same
manner as we fired many others-the diff
ference this time being we had placed a man
In the enclosure up front rather than the
same weight or more of instruments.
Perhaps the most impressive part of the
United States feat, from the technical side,
was the satisfactory recovery of the astro-
naut, and the general success of the whole
operation. Thankfully, we experienced no
fizzles, as have plagued our over-publicized
efforts in the past too often, in the entire
operation.
The next step, of course, is for us to or
bit an astronaut around the earth, and after
that we will attempt to develop ways and
means for controlled flight in outer space
Now, at least, we know we can recover a
man from space flight if he can land within
specified area, and the United States, is sec
ond among the worlds nations to send hu-
man being into outer space successfully
1t is good to see the pioneer space eff
fort, involving human life succeed. How
ever this should not mislead us into think
ing we have caught up with the Soviet I'm
ion in this field. We are still trailing rather
badly in the race to explore outer space,
and our efforts should be redoubled and in
tensifed. The success of the astronaut does
not change this basic and unpleasant fact
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