Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American nuclear-missile submarines and H-bombers vastly outnumber their Soviet counterparts. To be sure, the larger average size of Soviet warheads gives the U.S.S.R. an enormous lead in deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe out U.S. offensive ICBMs in a surprise first strike. Yet the very number and variety of American nuclear weapons, combined with...
...Big Suprise...
...empty table. Vellucci brought us sandwiches (he'd made them himself) and drinks and wandered off to talk with people at the other tables. People in the room had noticed us and our cameras but paid us little attention. The tone of the room was like the light, subdued. Big ladies sat talking over their Tom Collinses. Men sat in front of their beers, smoking, talking quietly, staring into space. There weren't many people in the room and there was little of the rally atmosphere that we had expected...
...Harvard harriers retain their cockiness and nonchalance. At a team party this past weekend, the Big Three Trophy, which they had retained again Friday in New Haven was being used to serve Tootsie Roll Pops. Some guy down at Yale asked Dave Pottetti after the race if he thought Harvard would do well in the Heps. Pottetti said he'd hate to sound arrogant, but then said that he considered "well" to be an understatement. That may be an accurate assessment, especially if Bob Seals and Roy Shaw, both of whom set a blistering pace early in Friday's race...
...apparently been impressed by the Mayor's willingness to take a stand on this national issue. In contrast to New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Robert Meyner's similar preachings, Lindsay's anti-Vietnam statements were not produced solely for the occasion of the campaign; he alone of the nation's big-city mayors has taken a steady and unhedging stand against...