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Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...large segment of U.S. Protestantism is on the move this week-into a 19-story, $20 million Interchurch Center overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan's culture-studded Morningside Heights...
While every broad segment is expanding, the expansion is relatively slow in manufacturing (total number of firms up only 3% over 1951), faster in transportation, communications and other public utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food and related stores by 14%, but with many more new products to be distributed there has been an 18% expansion in the number of wholesaling concerns. Since 1951, old-fashioned general merchandise stores have declined 9%. But with more and more people on the go, restaurants are up 4%, automotive...
...also lost much of its Protestant heritage through the more enlightened and enlarged admissions policy of recent decades. No longer a training ground for the Congregational ministry, Harvard has discarded its pro-New England bias. One hundred years ago the largest single religious group was Unitarian; today the largest segment is Jewish...
...literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...