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...report of the proposals devised at the White House meeting will be presented Monday to the meeting of the Commission on Federal Relations of the American Council of Education in Washington. This meeting will also tackle the problem of bridging the time gap until the guaranteed loan program can be fully established...
...water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore a gap in the Turkish lines, and through the gap Allenby hurled 9,000 horsemen. It was the last great cavalry charge in military history. In 36 hours, Allenby destroyed two Turkish armies and captured 80,000 men. Six weeks later, Turkey sued for peace...
...with the water shortage--which, of course, now encompasses just about everybody in the East. The snow, however, is not enough. Last summer, for example, New York's reservoirs were down to less than 36 per cent of capacity. Even Old Man Winter is not expected to fill this gap. Four straight years of water shortage have at least forced the federal government to consider taking an active role in planning for the future. President Johnson has already set up a Water Resources Council to study U.S. water needs, and in addition has set aside $275 million for research...
...planes to plaster a 7,310-sq.-mi. area, whereas the Air Force in World War II used 1,700 planes to bomb a 2,900-sq.-mi. area of north and central Italy. Even making allowances for the greater speed of the modern jet, there remains a large gap. So abundant are planes for tactical use in the South, on the other hand, that military men in Saigon maintain: "In the South we have a baseball bat to kill a flea, in the North a popgun to bring down an elephant...
...gains will also cost something. As the U.S. enters what seems certain to be its sixth straight year of expansion, the economy is scraping up against the top limits of its current capacity. Growth has been so strong for so long that the U.S. has almost fully closed the gap between what it is actually producing and what it could theoretically produce at top steam. Just five years ago, economists calculated the gap at more than $50 billion; now the escalating demands of consumers, corporations and the Pentagon are straining the U.S.'s supply of men and machines...