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Rather than mount an immensely expensive anti-ballistic missile system to defend the nation's cities against a possible attack by enemy missiles, the U.S. has relied to date on an offensive system whose devastating retaliatory capabilities would, presumably, deter the enemy from attacking in the first place. The present U.S. arsenal should indeed give any aggressor pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some...
...fame." Created whole by expostulatory publicity as the jet set's hottest afterburner three years ago, Baby Jane Holier, 27, is trying "to find reality" through acting, has graduated from $200 underground films to a genuine Hollywood talk-on. She is also enjoying her most stunning success to date-undulating on the floor of off-Off Broadway's Cafe La Mama as the hopefully seductive heroine of a one-acter called The Love Lecture. "You give your all, and they dig it," said Baby Jane. "You can't play a part without facing yourself and communicating...
When was the earth formed? What are the ancient milestones in man's development? In recent years, scientists have tackled such mysteries by means of radioactive dating. By comparing the amount of radioactive carbon 14 in a fossil with the amount contained in a living counterpart, for example, paleontologists determine when the fossil was part of a functioning organism. Using similar methods, scientists date meaningful objects as old as 3.5 billion years...
...happenings 4.6 billion years ago, including possibilities of how chemical elements and the planets were formed." To enlarge these studies, balloons are now being lofted to capture cosmic-ray tracks. And when astronauts return with lunar soil one of these days, Walker & Co. will be on hand to help date the moon...
...story about Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's criticism of the church position that Negroes are the descendants of Cain and hence ineligible for the priesthood. Himself a Mormon, Udall argued that Founder Joseph Smith held no such view. According to Udall, it was promulgated at a later date when the church "settled for a compromise with its own ideals...