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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Raytheon Co. announced a "command receiver," also irreverently called "the missile whistle," designed to avoid any possibility of such a mistake. Slightly bigger than three packs of cards, the missile whistle contains five electronic filters that make it deaf to everything except a combination of five different radio waves transmitted simultaneously on narrow frequency bands. The most complex electronic babble sounds like silence to a missile equipped with this gadget, but when the five-part signal comes, it picks it out of the racket and obeys its command. The five frequencies can be varied, giving millions of combinations...
...have to go to him and ask, 'Why didn't you whup me?' " His mother walked out and went to St. Louis. At twelve, Sonny ran away to join her. "She put me in school," says Liston, "but I was much bigger than the other kids and I didn't stay long. I started fighting, and I started playing hooky, and one thing led to another. I wound up in the house of detention." The original charge was breaking and entering, but Liston soon graduated to grander crime, served two years in the state prison...
...Moore sent only bronzes, mostly because he has become more and more interested in outdoor sculpture, and bronze is more durable than either wood or stone. He has also become interested in doing larger and larger sculptures, and that accounts in part for the roughness of the surface. "The bigger the forms, the bigger the tools," he says. "And the bigger the tools, the bigger the marks they leave." But the roughness also reflects the texture of rocks and mountains. The arresting Reclining Figure No. 1 is made up of two craggy shapes that resemble sections of a mountain range...
taxpayers $365 million a year, has failed to stall the inexorable decline of the 200,000 marginal Southeastern cotton farmers, who cannot compete in world markets because they are growing the wrong crop in the wrong place. It has gravely penalized the 35,000 bigger U.S. cotton growers, who could compete against any cotton growers anywhere if only given the freedom to do so. These efficiently automated farmers-mostly in the flat and well irrigated Mississippi Delta, the Texas plains and California's San Joaquin Valley-can work only a fraction of their productive lands because of acreage controls...
Avoiding the Obvious. In his drive to alleviate the textile maker's troubles, President Kennedy has promised some sensible measures, including bigger depreciation allowances on textile machinery and a Government-aided research program. But by piling on trade barriers to offset export subsidies to offset price supports, the net effect of his textile program will surely be to remove the industry farther than ever from the conditions of free competition. As for the strong medicine that would help the most-ending the whole costly absurdity of cotton props- that is a remedy that no Administration has dared hint...