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...subsonic air-breathing missile was a sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile. Had the Air Force's air-breathing Snark been pushed to completion on its original schedule three years ago, it could have filled a gap in U.S. air strength. By the time the first (and only) Snark wing was put into operation this year in Maine, Soviet defenses had more than caught up with it. Counting total development costs ($740 million), the Snark is one of the most costly, wings ever formed...
Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...
...graduating from the first two lines, but the nine returnees form the nucleus of a potentially excellent unit. Captain Hank Keohane and Dave Cappiello, the starting ends, will be missed, but the second pair of Bob Boyda and Bert Mennsenbaugh was outstanding all year and can fill the gap beautifully, with Alex Hart and freshman Ron Bonebrake behind them...
Einar I. Haugen will fill a conspicuous gap in the Faculty next July when he becomes the University's only professor of Scandinavian Languages...
Having at last closed the culture gap, Director Hinkhouse is already planning a new $750,000 museum wing. "Man needs a good diet for the mind," Hinkhouse points out. "The art museum helps complete the menu...