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...budget ax that hangs over every U.S. planemaker fell with swift and painful force. In the first big cutback of the current economy drive, the Air Force last week issued a curt announcement that North American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North...
...scientists who disagree most sharply with Commissioner Libby are the geneticists. At the University of California, Geneticist Curt Stern, onetime member of the ABC's biological advisory commit tee, says of his colleagues: "Every one of them thinks that damage is being done." Dr. Stern thinks that Libby should stick to his own field (physics and chemis try). About the statements by physicists that bomb tests are safe, Dr. Stern says: "These statements are not based on scientific principle." Starting with Dr. Libby's own statement that fallout has increased back ground radiation by only...
...film's hero, General Harras (Curt Jürgens), is admittedly modeled after the late Ernst Udet, the German ace of World War I who was a Luftwaffe general in World War II. Harras hates the Nazis, but not as much as he loves his air force, and he knows that if he gives up the one he will have to give up the other. So he goes along, year after year, swallowing his disgust ("After each sitting [i.e., conference] I feel like pulling the chain") and guzzling champagne-the picture of a man too weak...
Yale's John Slowik is slightly favored over Jim Cairns on the basis of comparative times, with French Anderson fighting Eli Ev Hedeen for third. The javelin is strictly a toss-up between the varsity's Carl Pescosolido and Yale's Curt Coker. Pete Briggs gives the Crimson a good chance for third...
...Phillies are depending heavily on rookies such as Ed Bouches, Bob Bowman, and Jack Sanford, but outside of a pitching staff headed by Robin Roberts, Harvey Haddix, Bob Miller and Curt Simmons, the Phils offer little...