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...powerful beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
...George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Dr. John C. Snyder, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, reported on the impact of federal funds on their schools, before Pusey opened discussion, which lasted about an hour...
...writings on sex he received the list of adjectives at the New York trial. Despite its impact on England of the 1920's, though, Marriage and Morals could hardly shock anyone today. The unwaveringly high-minded tone of Russell's argument, indeed, is more arresting than his taboo-smashing. "I think," he says, "that all sex relations which do not involved children should be regarded as a purely private affair, and that if a man and a women choose to live together without having children, that should be no one's business but their own." The exceeding difficulty of obtaining...
...year. Another of TIME'S hardier traditions is the year-end business review. It attempts to say where we've been and where we're going. This year the review pays special note to a facet of the economy that has long been underestimated: the impact of automation and computers on businessmen's actions and plans. Because of the year's demands for extra copies of this special report, we're planning to make reprints available. If you would like copies of this economic study for your business associates, please drop a note...
Despite this, some economists, such as the University of California's President Clark Kerr, believe that a combination of retraining and relocation could significantly alleviate automation's impact-provided there were realistic safeguards. Union men would have to retain their old seniority rights while occupying new jobs, management would have to give earlier notice of coming layoffs, the Government would have to put out more information on job opportunities, and there would have to be down-to-earth training programs that focused on basic skills rather than specialized job training. Recalling that the U.S. Army...