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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists, general and complete disarmament is a word game that permits everyone to inspect the disarming, but not the arming. Moscow would welcome witnesses to the destruction of a certain number of guns and bombs, but would not let outsiders in to see whether Russia is turning out bigger and better arms at factories elsewhere. As one American expert puts it: "We're invited to watch the bonfire, but we're not permitted to inspect the production lines...
Rites of Spring. Flower shows are an annual rite of spring* all over the U.S. Manhattan's closed a fortnight ago after setting an alltime attendance record of 250,000 visitors in nine days. The trend at the Coliseum was toward bigger blossoms and smaller plants (one new product called Phosphon promised to produce "compact plants with full-sized blooms and shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show...
With an enigmatic smile on his lips, a young Greek god emerged last week into the modern world after a seclusion of 2,000 years. A bronze kouros (young man) probably representing Apollo, the slightly bigger-than-life statue is the oldest and biggest bronze kouros yet discovered. To ready it for its debut and first official posing, archaeologists spent many months stripping away the incrustations of time-and at least some of the mystery surrounding the young...
...much criticized Titan I. During the development of Titan I, Aerojet-General, which built Titan II's engines; stored up dozens of new ideas for an advanced missile; instead of dribbling them into the Titan I, it saved them for a brand-new missile. Titan II is considerably bigger (102 ft. high) than Titan I or Atlas, has greater thrust (430,000 Ibs. v. the Atlas' 360,000 Ibs.) and has far fewer gadgets that can go wrong. Says Aerojet-General's A. L. Feldman, technical program manager: "We got rid of all the garbage. Titan...
...Steel itself, it has turned in handsome after-tax profits of 5.7% to 9.5% on its sales every year since 1953. Part of the reason is that Big Steel has followed every wage hike since World War II-except those negotiated in early 1960-with an even bigger price rise...