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...ponderous, unnamed 280-mm. gun (17 miles), carried by a two-cab hook-and-ladder-style truck, which lofts a 605-Ib. shell with high accuracy. A stopgap weapon that first appeared in 1953, it is so cumbersome that it is used for little else than military parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Atoms v. Gunpowder | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: For Unsleepy People | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Murphy, approached by a New York Mirror reporter as he left a cab by his home, blew up: "Good God! What is wrong with you people? Let me alone! I will not say a word to any newspapermen. Go see Mrs. Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Divorce in Idaho | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Negro cab driver in Monroe told me last spring that things were so bad in Monroe that he was just waiting for the federal government to step in and clean things up. Well, he's still waiting. Federal intervention in the Mississippi "black belt" will come only when the Negroes begin to shoot back. The intervention will be in the form of disarming the Negroes. What else can we expect? The FBI could not even get a conviction of the known lynchers of Mack Parker or the murderer of Rev. Lee. Even though we are told we have a "liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED FOR VIOLENCE | 3/27/1963 | See Source »

Though the CAB and ICC are technically independent agencies, the Administration's downbeat attitude towards merger: is bound to have an effect on them. The proposed airline mergers would create lines substantially more powerful than most of their competitors, and the chief aim of the rail mergers is to cut costs by eliminating jobs and duplicate facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Downbeat on Mergers | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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