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With a relatively small skilled work force and nationwide mobilization, South Viet Nam produces almost nothing to trade for the vast array of imports that choke its harbors and shine alluringly on store shelves. Exports total barely $15 million, while imports exceed $850 million. The only thing that closes this incredible trade gap is the massive infusion of U.S. dollars. This year the South Vietnamese economy will absorb some $400 million in direct foreign aid from the U.S., another $400 million in Defense Department spending for local goods and services, and about $80 million in private spending by U.S. personnel...
ARMS CONTROL. Soviet missile strength is approaching, and may exceed, that of the U.S. The U.S.S.R. will have 1,290 ICBMs to the U.S.'s 1,054 by the end of the year, though the U.S. will maintain a lead in submarine-launched missiles, 656 to 300. Expressing dismay over the Soviet buildup, Nixon pledges that the U.S. will enhance its own security by going ahead with the Safeguard ABM program. Oddly, there is no mention of continuation of U.S. testing of multiple-warhead offense missiles, possibly because the U.S. hopes to discuss controls on the numbers of such...
...lives in Manhattan, a city in which outdoor pay telephones are used as urinals. He judges that Manhattan has come to exceed Naples or Salonika in the fluorescence of its decay. But the fact neither dismays nor gratifies him. It is his belief, in fact, that people have grown too fond of "the tragic accents of their condition." They use the upset of former respectabilities to justify silliness, shallowness, distemper, lust. He has seen worse than fouled phone booths...
First-choice votes will be tabulated, and quotas established for each category. Those candidates whose votes exceed the quota will be declared elected. If no candidate is elected, the candidate receiving the least number of votes will be eliminated...
...George F. Lombard '33, senior associate dean of the Business School, said last night there is "a good chance" that the total number of blacks next year will exceed 67. Additional blacks will either provide their own funds or take out loans to pay for their tuition...