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While NORAD estimates that it could knock out 70% of any attacking bomber force with interceptors and Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and BOMARC missiles, it can do nothing at all to stop an enemy missile after it detects one. For that reason General Kuter, in flat disagreement with most Air Force brass, urges speedy development of the Army's controversial Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Says he: "We urgently need something, even though catching the enemy's missiles after he has thrown them and at the last minute is a poor way to play ball...
...parlayed its World War II radar-directed antiaircraft gun control system into prime contracts for the Nike series (Ajax, Hercules, Zeus) of antiaircraft and antimissile rockets. Defense business last year was 27% of sales of A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary...
William Larsen's Nestor is a tiresome Polonius gone even more senile. And Thayer David gives a masterly portrait of Ajax as a bloated, redfaced, blusterer who stammers over his plosives--all brawn and no brain...
Among resons for choosing this Spring's plays were a desire to encourage classicists--which led to Ajax--and fear of incurring criticism from outside groups--which caused the Faculty Committee to veto The Jew of Malta in favor of The Alchemist...
...music is worth hearing, some (but by no means all) of the costumes worth looking at, the play worth knowing. But that isn't enough; those who are curious are likely to find the Ajax a bore, and those who love the language may even think it something close to insult...