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...Missile Gap: Maybe the Russians will steal all our secrets. Then they'll be two years behind...
Diagnostician Gibney, a LIFE staff writer and author (The Frozen Revolution, Five Gentlemen of Japan), warns earnestly: "Older powers than ours have been fatally undermined when the gap grew too great between the citizen's private sense of wrong and the public morality to which he and his fellows were pledged." To document the gap, Gibney attempts to chronicle every conceivable device of legal and illegal corner cutting, bunching them all into what might be termed Gibney's Unified Sociological Field Theory of the "Genial Society...
Administration would not win and could not stop [and] prevented half a dozen other threats from developing into war-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Formosa, Suez, Lebanon, Quemoy, West Berlin." At the same time, the Administration has built up "gigantic" but "balanced" military strength around the world, while closing the missile gap that it inherited from the Democrats. "The Eisenhower Administration today is putting 40 times more into [long-range] missiles each month than the previous Administration did in eight years." The Economy. At home, the Administration has spread the benefits of eco nomic prosperity "not by Government orders, edicts or controls...
...sister ship Patrick Henry will be on duty by year's end, and with just these first two missile submarines on station-each with 16 missiles-the U.S. will outnumber the Soviets in known numbers of ICBMs and go a long way toward bridging any missile gap. They will open a new sea frontier along the 6,000-mile stretch of Indian Ocean where the U.S. now has no bases. They will be at home along the long Arctic coastline of Eurasia. By 1965, the Navy plans a fleet of 45 FBM submarines-30 on station at a time...
...wage boost and a bonus besides. In Copenhagen, when management gave in to a wildcat strike of women workers at the Tuborg and Carlsberg breweries, it was fined $15,000 (the maximum) by the Danish employers' association. The pressure to raise European wages is lessening the big gap between U.S. and foreign pay, making U.S. goods more competitive...