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...receiving substantial aid from Moscow and Havana. John T. Hughes, the very same Government intelligence expert who first translated specks on the Cuban terrain as Soviet missiles in 1962, returned to the stage, pointer in hand. The eyeball-to-eyeball allusions were plentiful, though somehow outdated Russian T-55s parked near Managua seem less of a direct threat to U.S. interests than did medium-range missiles off the coast of Florida...
...extent of Moscow's involvement, which has already cost the Kremlin close to $3 billion and is growing more expensive by the day. They claim that Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, the so-called "frontline" Arab countries, now possess 3,750 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54s and T-55s; some 4,000 big guns, ranging up to 122-mm. cannon and 160-mm. mortars; and 1,230 planes, mostly MIG fighters but also Sukhoi and Tupolev bombers. Israeli estimates of Soviet equipment in the Middle East have sometimes been off by 25% and other sources give considerably lower figures...
...formidable Israeli-developed weapons systems: > An almost totally redesigned version of the U.S.-built M48 Patton tank, which now mounts a British 105-mm. cannon, is driven by a diesel instead of a gasoline engine, and may be the equal of Egypt's Soviet-supplied T-55s. > A 90-mm. antitank gun, mounted on a halftrack chassis and capable of traversing from side to side, which considerably increases desert firepower. > Most impressive of all, the ship-based Gabriel missile, a flat-trajectory supersonic weapon against which no defense is reported to have been built...
...m.p.h.). The faster turn-around and the increased seating capacity of the S-61s (there will be four in operation by this summer) will enable the line to carry 150,000 to 200,000 passengers a year at 10? per seat mile, as against the old S-55s 40,000 passengers and 17.9? per seat mile. It takes three hours of freeway driving to get to the Los Angeles International Airport from San Bernardino. The S-61 will make it in 34 minutes for $8. The passenger flying into Los Angeles from out of town need pay only...
John J. Colony, Jr. '37, Captain. He is 21 years of age, weights 177 pounds and is 6 feet 1 inch tall. He prepared for Harvard at Exeter. His home is in Keene, New Hampshire. He swims the 100 yard free style with an approximate time of 55s, and is a member of the 400 yard relay team which holds the Harvard and Pool Record at 3m. 37s. The team is made up of Donald N. McKay '38, Dario C. Berizzi '38, John J. Colony...