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...nuclear weapons. As further evidence of the shift in strategy, which represents a triumph of air force thinking over the other branches of the military, Hughes cited a speech a speech by Air Force Deputy Secretary Gilpatrick a few months ago. In it Gilpatrick announced that the U.S. would aim for twice the striking power by 1965 than...
Stans states his journalistic aim simply: "My effort is to point out to people what I've learned about the economy-the forces at work . . . The pattern I use is to add just enough figures to analysis to prove a point. I'm not in competition with Sylvia Porter [who appears in about 350 papers] on elementary finance and Government fiscal processes. As far as I can tell, I haven't any competition...
...Ground. A major aim of the Kennedy Administration's defense policy has been to improve the U.S.'s ability to wage limited war-and, specifically, to fortify weaker allies in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa against Red-led guerrilla insurrections. To that end, the Army has souped up its crack Special Forces instruction teams (TIME, March 2). Early last year. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay ordered his staff to figure out how to provide air support for anti-guerrilla operations...
...Outlet. Work like Denis Mitchell's is the general aim of ETV producers, and not the exception, as it is on ABC, NBC and CBS. Not classroom television, N.E.T. programs range all over the spectrum of interest from the natural sciences to drama and jazz. And none of the 64 stations broadcasts a single commercial...
Even in Latin America, however, the road to economic union is still potholed. In their own Central American common market, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras have agreed to erase tariffs on 200 items within the past two years, aim for fully free trade with one another and a single external tariff within a decade. A scheme to grant each member a monopoly on producing certain goods has led mostly to shoddier products. Grumped one Guatemalan housewife last week: "I used to pay 35?for a can of imported soup. Now I have to pay 45? for Central American soup...