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...missiles. In the dawning age of ICBMs, the U.S. itself became a certain target with all major defense installations well known; yet U.S. forces did not know of any military targets except major Soviet cities, and precious little about the new ones that were behind the Urals. No gap in weapons was ever so serious to U.S. security as the intelligence gap...
...great defense debate that blasted off in the wake of Sputnik I, the honest fears of a dangerous U.S. "missile gap" that flared in the repeated failures of U.S. rocketry - all the long, loud argument seemed like a fading whisper last week as shot after shot sent U.S. missiles successfully down their test ranges, and headed satellites toward space...
...offensive missiles and bombers, and to chuck expensive defensive systems (TIME, April 18). And last week the prestigious House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, in a thoughtful audit, generally endorsed the Administration's "mixed-force concept" of missiles and bombers (and put to rest concern about a missile gap). Then it raised a question far more fundamental to U.S. defense than hardware: Must the U.S. always plan to take the first blow in future wars...
...Francisco Examiner, Hearst's first paper, which proclaims itself "the monarch of the dailies," faces serious challenge as the city's largest newspaper. In the last ten years, while the Examiner took on 54,520 new subscribers, the rival Chronicle gained 103,401, has narrowed the circulation gap from 65,880 to a slender 16,999. Elsewhere, the picture is even darker. Items...
...this is a hard-fought contest with its chief rival, massive Jersey Standard. John Loudon diplomatically insists that "this is not a horse race" - but every oilman knows that it is. The Group still lags behind Jersey Standard (1959 sales: $8.7 billion), but it is fast closing the gap. Its annual report, issued this week, shows that its sales climbed to $7.2 billion from last year's $6.5 billion and its net profits from $444 million to $491 million. While Jersey Standard's sales grew 5½%, the Group's sales grew...