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...blue-chip businessmen of the National Industrial Conference Board. Right off, he disarmed the skeptics with charm and wit. "It would be premature to seek your support in the next and inaccurate to express thanks having had it in the last one." Then he poked fun at the missile gap flap within his own team by referring to "what Democrats in this Administration used to call Missile Gap...
Criticizing the "distance between students and faculty members at Radcliffe," Elaine B. Cottler, Bryn Mawr '62, disapproved of the lecture system because it contributes to the gap. She noted that 'Cliffies have too little opportunity for discussion with their professors...
...Crimson coach Bill Brooks were to unleash all the chaos that he holds in check, the gap might even be wider. But he probably...
...last week where Ike left off. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (who pronounces "missiles" as "mizzles") wrote to McNamara asking for details of the briefing that had touched off the trouble. The Republican National Committee's newspaper Battle Line got out an extra explaining that the missile gap was the "grand deception of the 1960 campaign...
Meaningless Drill. In all the loud, repetitive argument, politicians and public lost sight of the fact that evaluation of enemy missile strength is a complex exercise, and honest experts may produce wildly varied estimates. As Secretary McNamara has learned, counting intercontinental ballistic missiles to measure a missile gap is a meaningless drill in arithmetic. For a country like the U.S., dedicated to the proposition that it will not strike the first blow, the problem is to build a retaliatory force capable of surviving any sneak attack. U.S. strategy requires that the very existence of that force deter aggression. If there...