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...Tight Spitter. Brazil's President lacks the easygoing gaiety of most of his countrymen. His short figure and outsize head have made sobersided Eurico Caspar Dutra a target for Rio cartoonists, who love to picture him as a sleepy owl. But even his harshest critics concede him a rocklike integrity, boundless courage, and an immobile sort of dignity...
House Republican leaders yesterday made the Administration's multi-billion dollar Housing program the target for a new economy drive. Joseph Martin, of Massachusetts, called a mass meeting of all GOP House member for today, to shape party policy on the bill. The bill goes before the House Rules Committee today...
...basic weapon for air combat, thinks McNarney, will be the "air-to-air" rocket. It will not have to be aimed very accurately, for it will "home" on its target (probably attracted by radar-wave reflections), chase after it at supersonic speed, and explode by a proximity fuse when it gets within killing range. Such rockets presumably will be used by bombers for defense as well as by fighters for attack. Their development into "operational missiles," says McNarney, will not take long...
...antiaircraft guns, will rise from the ground to chase the bombers. They will probably ride a movable radar beam kept trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...
Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...