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...Many of our problems are of our own making," admits articulate James Robison, 46, president of Indian Head Mills. Partly because most textile firms are too small and partly out of shortsightedness, the industry spends only one-tenth of 1% of its sales on research. By contrast, the enterprising chemical makers invest 6% of their sales on research-and have reaped billion-dollar dividends with the synthetics and plastics that are rapidly slicing away textile markets...
...Fortnight ago in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, he became the first miler ever to break four minutes indoors. According to Coach Igloi's careful plan, he was to run the mile in 3 min. 58.8 sec. Sprinting through a 57.4-sec. last quarter, Beatty was precisely one-tenth second tardy at the tape...
...Faculty member raised the question of National Science Foundation money, which requires an affidavit and oath but which the University accepts because it is a direct government to student program; and NDEA money which Harvard refuses because the University must administer the oath and affidavit and provide one-tenth of the funds...
...instrument of the government, enforcing an official, safe norm of belief. Although it has been suggested that Harvard accept NDEA money and provide separate scholarship funds for those students who refuse to sign the affidavit, this suggestion begs the moral question. In an NDEA loan, the University would provide one-tenth of the money and would have to administer the disclaimer affidavit. Harvard's own funds would thus be placed under government restrictions, and the University would be in the impossible moral position of administering an affidavit it did not believe...
...people. Ranging down in power, the U.S. has a large group of small tactical nuclear weapons for use in light rockets, artillery shells, torpedoes, antisubmarine depth charges, air-to-air missiles, etc. The warhead of the air-to-air Genie, which is carried by interceptor planes, yields one-tenth kiloton (100 tons). The state of the stockpile of these weapons is secret, but no U.S. authority can be found who does not believe that the U.S. is far ahead of the Russians in both quantity and quality of nuclear explosives. It is agreed, also, that both countries have more than...