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...missile arsenal for a devastating retaliatory strike. That arsenal, consisting of 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan Us, is more than double Russia's stockpile of 470 land-based missiles. But London's Institute for Strategic Studies reported last week that the Russians are closing the gap; as for the Chinese, the I.S.S. noted that they have begun test-firing a missile with a 400-mile range...
...reputation as an internationalist with an article on the fu ture of Asia in Foreign Affairs and a speech in Manhattan attacking the Administration's foreign policy. "Seldom," he said, "has a nation been so mistrusted in its purposes or so frustrated in its efforts. The gap is widening between what our spokesmen say and what others believe. Ideas should be our greatest export, and yet in the marketplace of ideas, people of other nations are simply not buying American...
...this year, was tested with teachers across the country, who enthusiastically endorsed the concept and content. Prepared by a special staff in consultation with educators, the guide is designed to help teachers integrate the current issue of TIME with the subjects they teach, as well as bridge the gap between today's news and the textbooks by using historical parallels. Issues of the guide will contain sections on vocabulary, news questions, maps, pictures and charts for projection, bibliographies and suggestions for class projects...
...glare of national publicity, may have contributed to the sense of frustration. People who lived in dilapidated housing in the largely Negro Hill and Dixwell areas may simply have grown tired of hearing that their city was doing more than any other to house its poor. To many, the gap between Weaver's dream and everyday reality became intolerable. "We've been telling the Negro that there's a new day," notes Mitchell Sviridoff, who left New Haven's poverty program last year to become head of New York City's Human Resources Administration...
...bags of coffee beans this year, each bag containing 132 Ibs. of beans. Of this staggering total, the consuming nations will get only 46,850,000 bags, leaving another 15,000,000 or so to be consumed at home or added to the warehouses. What makes the gap more disturbing is that some coffee-drinking nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes 50% of the global output, per capita daily consumption has fallen from 3.12 cups to 2.86 cups in four years, apparently because younger Americans tend to prefer soft drinks...