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Wiesner, who was President John Kennedy's science adviser, flatly denies that thesis. Utilizing the same basic data that went into Laird's projection, he sketched five scenarios of possible Russian attacks some time between 1975 and 1980. Depending on the situation, the U.S. would still retain a very powerful nuclear counterpunch by Wiesner's calculations: between 2,500 and 7,500 deliverable nuclear weapons. The launching of only a few hundred warheads would be necessary to devastate the Soviet Union...
...American Security Council is not that generous. Its study concludes that the Russians are already surpassing the U.S. in every important nuclear category, offensive and defensive. The figures are far more alarming than any put out by the Pentagon; yet the council, too, works with the same basic data that have been generally available. By ascribing more importance than most strategists give to Soviet middle-range bombers, missiles and conventionally powered submarines, it concludes that the U.S. is already behind in the missile race by 2,750 to 1,710, and in bombers as well...
...faculty members, as well as a number of graduate dissertations. These studies, which were conducted without any control either by me or the granting agency, included a number of projects dealing with student and other movements in various countries, both developed and underdeveloped, support for the establishment of survey data studies library housed within the Berkeley Survey Research Center, methodological investigation of comparative analysis, and others. After coming to Harvard, part of this grant was renewed once to me as principle investigator so that some of these studies could be completed. None of the Air Force grants have been used...
...short, the case for racial differences in innate intelligence, unproved by the ambiguous data yielded by culture-bound intelligence tests administered to contemporary populations, collapses utterly when the overall record of human achievement, as unearthed by archaeologists, is brought to bear. Race is not a correlate of innate human intelligence...
...Scarsdale, N.Y., electronics firm, offers a color television set to any employee recommending an engineer who remains with the company for at least three months. Marcor, Inc., formed by the merger of Montgomery Ward and Container Corp. of America, awards $100 merchandise credits to employees who help recruit new data processors and secretaries...