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Defense. The Defense Department, by methods such as turning a harder eye to duplicating missile programs and wringing out other items of military waste, has squeezed itself into a budget estimate of $40.8 billion, about the same as for the current fiscal year, despite fantastically rising costs of new technology and force requests that originally totaled a staggering $58 billion...
...well-clothed, well-housed and well-medicated, is getting longer and longer. Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners-the state-government officials in charge of insurance matters-okayed a new mortality table that showed a dramatic rise in life expectancy since the current official table was approved in 1941. Back in 1941, as insurance actuaries figured it, the life expectancy of a newborn infant in the U.S. was 62 years; in the new table the figure is 68 years. The 1941-58 increase, largely a result of antibiotics and other medical advances, is about...
...Union, producing less than half the U.S. output, was failing to catch up. But though declaring Malenkov's figure a lie (since it made his own seem less impressive), Khrushchev was almost certainly fudging his own figures. Western specialists, piecing together other evidence, suspect that Khrushchev has inflated current grain production so that party critics could not protest that his 153-million-ton goal for 1965 is "unrealistic...
There are those who consider the current Montreal team the greatest ever in hockey, superior to the Boston Bruins of the '30s or the Detroit Red Wings, who won seven straight championships in the late '40s and early '50s. Last week Les Canadiens won three straight to pull far ahead of the second-place Red Wings...
...year boosted Texas Instruments from 26¾ to 86, Raytheon from 22 to 62⅝, Fairchild Camera from 18⅞ to 64¾, General Transistor from 17 to 51. But to many Wall Streeters, even such high prices seem cheap when sales and earnings are zooming. Explains one broker: "Current earnings are already past history. If you want to participate in growth, you have...