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...missiles apiece, two Polaris subs, each carrying 16 missiles), and the U.S.S.R.'s up to about 100. By mid-1963, according to revised plans and estimates, the U.S. count will be 200-250, the U.S.S.R.'s 400-500. Beginning in 1963, the U.S. hope runs, the compact, solid-fuel Minuteman missile, to be launched either from underground concrete silos or from moving railway-car platforms, will go into mass production, and the missile gap of the time will swiftly disappear...
...short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...
...impression: his feet hurt. The average passenger, he observed, "already has a walking distance of 900 feet from the point of entering the terminal to actually boarding his plane." Saarinen's solution: replace the customary "finger-style" airport design, which rays out to distant plane positions, with a compact structure served by a system of "mobile lounges." Instead of boarding their planes directly, passengers will board the lounges: double-width buses in effect, equipped with comfortable seats and high enough to permit direct access to the plane doors...
Ford Motor Co. this week unveiled its second entry in the compact car market and the sixth U.S. compact car: the Comet. Planned as the successor to the defunct Edsel, the Comet is longer (wheelbase: 114 in.) than most other compacts, will sell at less than $100 above the Falcon. Ford hustled to get it out because the compact car market is proving to be the hottest thing that has happened to Detroit in years...
...horsepower race, which Detroit likes to pretend does not exist in standard cars, is off to a fast start in the compacts. Chevrolet first offered an optional power pack, boosting the horsepower of the Corvair from 80 to 95. Last week Ford disclosed that it will offer an optional 100-h.p. engine for the 90-h.p. now in the Falcon. Chrysler will do even better. It will offer a 148-h.p. engine for its Valiant which is now the most powerful compact (101-h.p.) among the Big Three...