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...spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground zero. Just as soon as monitor teams reported a safe level of radiation, the armored column would roll forward to exploit the atomic attack, ready to pin down whatever remnants of enemy power were left...
Dewhurst's researchers attempted to calculate how much more money would have to be spent to reach a "standard of living at a health and decency level." This concept is hard to pin down, even in societies with lower economic levels. With Americans it is all the more conjectural because an adequate supply of TV sets and pinball machines is harder to determine than an adequate diet level. Nevertheless, the economists figured that 1950's gap between needs and supply-$13.1 billion, or 6% of expenditures-would be slashed to $11.4 billion in 1960, only 4% of expenditures...
BOWLING MERGER is in the works between Brunswick-Balke-Collender, biggest in the field, and Detroit's Murray Corp., which recently got out of the auto-body business. Brunswick has developed an automatic pin setter, and Murray Corp. wants to buy control of the company to make...
...Blackstone challenged a carpenter's union to build a box that could hold him. Shortly afterwards he found himself tied fast, squeezed into a box measuring 40 inches square. He was lowered by crane into a fast-rushing river. But suddenly the shaft-pin broke and the box fell into the water. When Blackstone smashed thought the pine wood bottom and came to the surface, he was dangerously close to some falls. He was but feet from the edge when he freed himself from his ropes and grabbed a cable stretched across the river to keep boats from going over...
...Yalta Papers (Contd.) Sir: The Yalta disclosures [March 28] should puncture the myth of F.D.R.'s infallibility . . . Any Democrat who tries to pin the tag "giveaway" on Ike's Administration should be laughed right off the podium...