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...subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson-already the nation's largest producer of vaginal contraceptives-entered the lucrative market with its new Ortho-Novum birth control tablets. The company expects that Ortho-Novum will raise total sales of oral contraceptives to nearly $25 million in 1963 and bring a 30% boost in Ortho's sales...
...reaction was pained, undaunted, and properly free of recrimination. A more popular view was heard on BBC television, in a spleen-venting poem by Programs Editor Antony Jay, which must have startled some of old Auntie BBC's listeners.* Grimly, officials turned to alternative half-plans, designed to boost exports and seek new markets. They knew they now had to provide against the day in 1967 when the Common Market, which now imports more than $2 billion worth of British goods yearly, will be protected by a single, uniform tariff wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter, President...
...sharp boost in graduate fellowships under the act, from 1,500 a year to 10,000, plus another 2,000 summer fellowships. » Extending to prospective college and private-school teachers the 50% forgiveness feature of N.D.E.A. loans which is now limited to those who are training to teach in public schools...
Truck sales have received their biggest boost from the steady spread of suburbia, which has created a need for more and more light and compact delivery trucks; last year such trucks accounted for three-fourths of all truck sales. Other segments of the industry are also growing fast. The share of long-distance freight transported by truck has risen to 23% from less than 10% 20 years ago, a trend that means a growing market for heavy-duty haulers. The healthy construction industry and the federal highway program increase the demand for big trucks...
...giant rockets designed to boost a man-carrying capsule to the moon will burn more than 2,000 tons of fuel, and a large part of their exhaust gases will be deposited more than 80 miles high, up where the air is only one-billionth as dense as at sea level. Once discharged at that altitude, the gases will not fall for weeks or months, and the air in which they will be floating is so thin that a small amount of contamination can have profound effects. Physicists Jerome Pressman, William Reidy and Winifred Tank of Geophysics Corp. of America...