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...with sources-can be attributed to the fact that he represents that towering institution, the New York Times. But part of it is unquestionably due to Reston's great ability, industry and purpose. He is driven by the firm conviction that a newsman's duty is to dig out, expose and criticize the seeds of Government policy before they become policy-so that there may be genuine public debate. His deep, burning purpose is to favorably influence the course of important public events...
...small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they no longer need him. In the process, his own company has grown big and fat: this week it announced record earnings of $2.74 a share, the twelfth consecutive yearly record...
That night, when the first dazed rescuers began to dig, there was hope the prisoners might still be alive. Canaries, carried underground in cages to test the air, survived, and 31 pit ponies were taken out alive and well. But, ominously, no "pipe talk" came back when the diggers tapped messages on the one water pipe that seemed to be intact, and a weary worker came to the surface shaking his head, saying, "It will take us a week to get near them." All through the night, womenfolk, some wailing, others grimly tightlipped, stood clinging to a fence near...
...Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing it in a large enough cavity, and thus can defeat the detection network. If anybody cared enough to dig a cave 3,000 ft. down and 950 ft. in diameter-an excavating job equal to removing a mass of material equal in volume to the concrete in 42 Grand Coulee dams-it would muffle a 300-kiloton bomb so much that the explosion "might be made to appear seismically like...
Last week the cross-Channel dig was back in the news. After two years of underwater testing and 56,000 interviews with Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists prepared to announce, in a $700,000 report, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, onetime head of the Foreign Office, and now co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, indicated that the 36-mile rail tunnel under the Channel would cost over $300 million, could bring...