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...Washington arguing that the U.S. seemed to be planning to build too many missiles--more than are needed for a minimum deterrent and so many as to needlessly and dangerously intensify the arms race by threatening the Soviet Union with being on the low end of a "missile gap." To this the liberal and intelligent top aide to one of our most pro-disarmament Senators responded that he personally was all in favor of building "too many" missiles since it would mean more jobs...
...Otherwise, Oslo will start negotiating for membership terms this summer-and the bargaining should not be difficult. Half of Norway's most important exports (fish, metals, paper) are already bought by Common Market customers. In addition, Norway's highly developed hydroelectric power system would fill a gap in the energy needs of the Six. The hardest bargaining will be over Norway's desire to protect its fishing fleet-foreign fishing boats now must stay twelve nautical miles from Norway's coast-and its inefficient, small-scale, heavily subsidized agriculture...
...next 27 laps were what the crowd had come to see. Around and around the 2½-mile Goodwood circuit, with its six corners and dangerous, S-shaped chicane, he drove with awesome speed. Relentlessly, he closed the gap on Hill: from 17th, he moved up to 15th, then 13th, 11th and 9th. He saluted as he passed other cars and waved to Mechanic Robinson in the pits. "Stirling is driving incredibly," reported the track announcer from his vantage point in a tower. "He's taking the corners faster than ever before." In a Lola, Britain's John...
Pointing to the salary gap between private and public institutions, the Association concluded that unless the states provided more resources, many students would be denied "the quality of education available to more affluent members of our society...
...Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...