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...stretch-out in the arms program began to look like a yawn-out. The military, which had been placing orders at a $5-billion-a-month clip last October and had planned to settle down to $4 billion a month, was now issuing contracts for only $2.8 billion a month. Actual deliveries of military goods, instead of increasing, were running at a rate of only $2 billion a month, unchanged since last September. Furthermore, though the U.S. was expected to run a deficit of $14 billion this fiscal year, it was temporarily running a cash surplus-another deflationary factor...
...Cornell team with an average of 11.5 points a game. Outside specialist Ray Handlan has been averaging 11, while six foot five center John Werner has 10.9. Fred Eydt, co-captain along with Chadwick, has been getting 9.3 points while guard Larry Goldsborough has been hitting at an 8.9 clip...
Because the machine turns out answers faster than the electric typewriter can print them, answers are first recorded on another tape which is channeled to a tape render. The answers are then relayed to the battery of four typewriters at a slower clip...
...have two prerequisites: skill - and courage. It takes courage to use skill, or to use it to that utmost which wins races. A watch-tick moment of bad judgment, a split second of uncontrol can send a downhill racer flying off the beaten track at a fatal 60 m.p.h. clip...
When the Norfolk is commissioned next August, she will be manned by 500 men and 40 officers, will slice through the water at a 30-knot clip. Her job, when she joins the fleet: to lead the Navy's hunter-killer antisubmarine teams. Sub warfare is getting so complicated that the Navy needs a double-barreled killer, a vessel big enough to act as a command ship for the air-sea teams, and tough enough to help them at the final kill...