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...Improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger punch in a smaller package-that determines how many bombs an aircraft can carry or how great a destructive force a missile can pack. U.S. experts fear that the Russians have made great strides in this area...
...represented an overwhelming majority," one legislative aide commented, "then we might be swayed." A check of offices on the Hill revealed that mail is generally running heavily in favor of resumed testing. Several aides pointed out that the Project would gain in influence if it could affect the mail ratio...
...begin with (and this is what the pamphlets' authors posit their entire civil defense program on, the enemy apparently plans to use only five-megaton "nuclear weapons." ("There are much larger weapons which could do more damage, but the damage from larger weapons does not increase in direct ratio to the size of the weapons"--so forget them.) And the Department hints at another Communist weakness by mentioning that "a tall apartment or office building 10 miles or more from the exposition could be one of the safest refuges...
...more general malady which ought to be closely investigated. The pattern of corporation giving since 1945 reflects distrust of health agencies in general. In 1947-48 corporations and foundations gave three times as much money for health and welfare as for education. In 1960 on the other hand the ratio was one to one; and the move away from health and welfare donations continues to accelerate. Private donors are likewise becoming disillusioned with the menagerie of voluntary health agencies. If their vital public service is to continue, a general overhaul is necessary...
...Even before the walls of Waldorf's sprouted abstract, wrough-iron nudes, and the quaint ugliness of the Bick underwent renovation, this cafeteria could afford the most modern facade on the square. Hayes-Bick and Waldorf's have unjustly overburdened the Cambridge consumer. If Albiani's, with its admirable ratio of empty tables to people manages without a minimum, so can the other cafeterias...