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Above all, it would delay the correction of the missile gap, because it would all but stop the U.S. development of nuclear warheads light enough to tip its second generation of solid-fuel missiles such as the Minuteman, Polaris and Nike-Zeus. (The Minuteman's warhead, for example, has never been tested...
...first operational models of the Air Force's Minuteman-the solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile that the Pentagon is betting on to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s-should roll off production lines in 1962. By then, the Air Force announced last week, the first Minuteman launching sites, nearly invulnerable underground concrete silos, will be ready at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base...
...containing 10,000 transistors and 106,000 other components. This electronic eavesdropper listens simultaneously to the talk on the cable's 48 channels, sampling each of them 8,000 times per second. When it finds that one of them is silent, another conversation is automatically switched into the gap. When the cable is fully occupied, 96 conversations dodge through the 48 channels, the words deftly avoiding each other. At the far end they are reassembled, good...
...wrested Constantinople from the last of the Caesars, Constantine XI Palaeologus, he barely missed capturing the papal ambassador, Cardinal Isidore of Russia, as an extra prize. But Isidore put his distinctive cardinal's hat and robes on a corpse, and in plebeian rags scuttled through a gap in the wall even as Mohammed's followers were mistakenly displaying the severed head of the corpse as Isidore...
...must be dumped on the world market. Last week the Department of Agriculture, which by law must make the U.S. cotton surplus available to world markets at competitive prices, asked the Tariff Commission for an 8? per lb. duty on cotton imports. Such a tariff would make up the gap between the low cost of raw cotton on the world market and the Government-supported prices that domestic mills must...