Outward Bound

P:With earth satellites already relegated to the category of "accomplished," Army and Air Force are racing to be first to try the next logical step into space: a shot at the moon. By later summer the Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon--and message back valuable readings on gases around it--or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar to the lost missile fired from the Cape last week in a nose-cone configuration test.

P:To friends who fear that Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy is whirling too far ahead of the pack in his bid for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, brainy, bankrolling father Joe Kennedy sums up his son's thinking this way: "The only way we can win this is to wrap it up very, very early. In our position, that's the risk we're most willing to take, and it's the least of our worries. When you start from scratch, you've got to run like the dickens all the way." P:The House Ways & Means Committee is ready to recommend a bill providing a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, a compromise between President Eisenhower's five-year request and the one-year-and-no-more demands of the congressional tariff bloc. But regardless of heavy protectionist opposition, trade-minded committee Democrats and Republicans will stand pat behind the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. P:Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time out to provide chow, chat and charm for some of his most consistent critics. To an off-record evening at his home in suburban Wesley Heights, Nixon invited a dozen British Washington correspondents who have given the readers at home a general picture of Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that he had called Democrats many a hard name, but never has called them a party of Communists, as Harry Truman likes to say. Admitted Nixon: "Politics the way I play it is a rough business." Said one longtime anti-Nixon newsman at evening's end: "He really won me over." P:Because too many communiques might sound like too much saber-rattling, the Atomic Energy Commission will make announcements on no more than half the 30 nuclear shots to be fired at the mid-Pacific Eniwetok Proving Ground this summer during the Operation Hardtack test series. But there is another compelling reason for secrecy as well. By not revealing the time and type of all bursts AEC will avoid offering the Russians an opportunity to test their capability at detecting small-yield nuclear shots.

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