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...valued at more than $7.7 billion.* Brusquely dismissing the plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum another $347 million...
...long last, the grand paladins of television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
...last notable epidemic two years ago. Though both virus types cause disease outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four-to six-year cycles. The U.S. has had none to speak of since 1955, so an outbreak was due this winter. The virus was ready and waiting. As a Public...
Woodbury shrugs off the attacks, and so do his superiors back home in Salt Lake City. "By Woodbury is a great leader." says Missions Director Henry Moyle. What animosity there is seems likely to wane. This week, as Woodbury rounds out his three-year tour of duty, a new president with a flair for church diplomacy is on his way to London: Marion Duff Hanks. 40. who has been working full time on Mormon business as one of the church's 38 "General Authorities." Hanks plans a somewhat softer sell...
...night, he started to emcee amateur shows all over the city, keeping a joke book with the dirty ones circled and the clean ones starred. When his mother died of erysipelas. Jackie, not yet 20, moved to Manhattan and began to seek bookings in nightclubs. During a three-year job at something called Club Miami in Newark, N.J.. he kept the crowds amused by insulting them, occasionally stepping into the alley to fight it out with a customer. One night a patron smashed him into unconsciousness. It turned out that the patron was boxing's Two-Ton Tony...