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...even visits his father's store, and there an old confusion leaves him helpless to speak his feelings. Like many a boy, he had never been able to bridge the distance between himself and his father. Now, as he relives the situation as an old man, the gap seems hardly narrowed. Was his father his enemy, or was he what he seemed to the rest of the town, a cheery backslapper with embarrassing cliches and Biblical quotations...
...warheads designed for the Polaris and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, which the U.S. is depending upon to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s, pack a nuclear punch of about half a megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three or four megatons in the nose cone of the U.S.'s Atlas ICBM. With additional nuclear tests, the yield of the Polaris and Minuteman warheads could be significantly increased, although Admiral William Raborn Jr. has said he needs no further tests of the present Polaris warhead. Some U.S. scientists...
...have the right to make this commercial treaty, but that it is a good thing-we have said it over and over again-to have that degree of stability and unity in Europe." Then he added: "What I have pleaded for ... is that we should not allow an economic gap, a sort of division, to grow up." Leaks & Bleats. The flap was the result of Macmillan's taking his informal clubman's manner to Washington, a city where today's club conversation can become tomorrow's headline. Developed in relatively leakproof London, Macmillan's style...
...chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps and, eventually, two backbiting political camps...
Compulsion. It is the summer of 1942, and at Devon School in New Hampshire, the war has widened the gap between classes. The 17-year-old seniors, who will be drafted within a year, grunt ferociously at their military calisthenics and practice the set of their jaws. But Gene