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...rest of the new military budget will finance the gradual modernization and replenishment of the U.S. arsenal, a process that has become routine in the cold war. It provides no fancy new weapons except those previously planned. One such is the Poseidon missile, which will replace the less accurate and less powerful Polaris birds in the tubes of most of the 41 nuclear submarines. A contingency fund of $377 million is earmarked for initial production and deployment of antiballistic missiles in the event that negotiations with the Russians to bar such weapons fail. Thus, large as it is, the defense...
...unprecedented strong resistance" last week all across China. In Sinkiang, the province that contains China's atomic-testing lands and borders on the Soviet Union, 10,000 former soldiers formed an "August First Field Army" to resist Mao's Red Guards. Seizing weapons and ammunition from an arsenal, they warned that "anyone opposing our rebellion will be shot." In the ensuing battle, according to wall posters, hundreds were-and 100 died. The August First irregulars were supported by seven of the eight divisions commanded by the boss of Sinkiang, Lieut. General Wang En-mao, who, despite his name...
...comes on with an arsenal of grown-up ideas about a Little Boy Blue who is as green as they come, especially in bed. The boy, Bernard (Peter Kastner), traverses the stacks of the New York Public Library riding roller skates and dumbwaiters, shuttling between a fast-working actress (Elizabeth Hartman) and a sloe-eyed librarian (Karen Black), wonder- ing which chick to turn. Off duty, he gets knocked about by a Wylie Mom and a wily Dad (Geraldine Page and Rip Torn). In the last reel the boy grows up, puts down his parents and stomps...
There may be a war raging in Viet Nam, but the feedback to the nation's toy manufacturers this year has been minimal. As the Christmas rush went into its last hectic week, retailers had an arsenal of toy guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...
...complete arsenal, in theory, would cost around $200, and many a family has found itself getting almost as far ahead of its original spending estimates as, say, Defense Secretary McNamara. This Christmas season, G.I. Joe is still the bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water...