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...million resort center called Freeport, with six hotels, two gambling casinos, and a commercial and industrial complex of 800 licensed businesses. Aluminum Executive J. Louis Reynolds is converting 13,000 acres on Andros Island into a housing, resort and commercial development that will include a U.S.-British navy undersea research and training center. Pan American's Juan Trippe is developing a section of Eleuthera, has thus far built a private golf course, a 100-room hotel and a nightclub, and has even added a jet strip and two flights a day out of Nassau. Other developments are being pushed...
...Rockville, Md., one noon last week, geophysicists closed the circuits of the world's first earthquake-information center, connecting 400 seismic reporting stations throughout the world. In Oyster Bay, L.I., oceanographers launched a new wire-drag ship to hunt for undersea hazards, joining a fleet of 14 research vessels already commissioned. Throughout the week, weather satellites scanned the atmosphere for hurricanes, while "Project Stormfury's" planes stood ready to try diverting any budding tropical storm. All these related functions-and many more-are now controlled and operated by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the bounciest baby bureaucracy...
...already busy with new ways to feed the hungry planet. Los Angeles' Rand Corp. feels confident that fish will be herded like cattle and raised in offshore pens, that kelp, seaweed, plankton and microscopic sea plants will be grown by divers living for months at a time in undersea bunkhouses. Oilmen have lately discovered how to derive a high-grade, edible protein from petroleum. The U.S. Army has figured out how to irradiate meats to preserve them for three years-a development of vast potential for refrigeration-shy countries. Would people eat such stuff? Happily, entrenched habits...
...Secretary McNamara has turned a deaf ear to Air Force requests to develop an Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft. The Navy, strengthened by three additional nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the next few years, will have no powerful adversary on the surface of any ocean, but it faces a growing undersea threat from Russia's fleet of 430 submarines. It will concentrate much of its effort on learning to take on and eliminate this threat, partly by perfecting sensing devices and new weapons for anti-submarine warfare. It will also seek to increase its nuclear-powered force of attack submarines...
...place and paid for, there is some apprehension among the experts that the improving power and accuracy of Soviet missiles may some day make the land-based birds obsolete. If that occurred, the U.S. might have to switch-at vast expense-to the water, placing ICBMs in stationary undersea silos or on movable underwater barges moored to the continental shelf. The Army has been pressing for a Nike X anti-missile system, but McNamara believes that it is too expensive ($30 billion or more) and imperfect, and that it could be thwarted by a considerably less costly increase...