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...National Effort. ICBMs are already moving out of the heady cloisters of laboratory spacemen into the workaday world of production engineers and cost accountants. They will cost about $4,000,000 apiece for the first production run of a few hundred, it is reckoned, and sharply less after that. The first 1,000 ICBMs and the first three launching bases will be had, it is thought, for about the price of 800 6-47 medium jet bombers. And as the ICBM and its family flourish, so does its accompanying technology, e.g., new cameras so sensitive that they can photograph...
...since the advent of Communism. The subtle ideograms of the poet's traditional language have little in common with the blunt ideologies of modern Marxism, and for that reason China's top Communist, Mao Tse-tung, has long had to dissemble the fact that he is a workaday poet himself...
...They keep talking about the iron curtain," complained a Rome cab driver last week, "but it's not the iron curtain that worries me. It's the green curtain that comes down every morning between me and my cabbage." In the argot of workaday Rome, the green curtain is the term used to describe the veil of mystery behind which the shrewd middlemen in the city's huge wholesale vegetable market operate to send the prices of simple foodstuffs soaring...
...next twenty-seven minutes proceed much like the first, except that remarks like "Whadja think they were rowin 'at?" replace discussions of Crane Brinton and similar workaday topics among the shopkeepers...
...rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President or one of the top White House aides, keeps in daily telephone touch with G.O.P. congressional leaders. Almost every problem of the party and the Administration concerns him in some way. And on top of his workaday schedule there are official parties almost every afternoon and night which the national chairman is obliged to attend...