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Some areas, including PAR sites that must be kept intact to maintain defenses, would also be protected by Sprints. These sharp-nosed, two-stage missiles, with a payload of a few kilotons (equal to thousands of tons of TNT instead of Spartan's millions), are aimed at warheads that have eluded Spartan. By this time the attacking vehicle has passed into the atmosphere and is traveling at about 18,000 miles per hour. To kill it before it explodes near the earth, Sprint must travel at fantastic speed. Its exact acceleration ability is secret, but the Army talks of Sprint...
...flawed defense "makes an attack much more complicated and would tend to argue against anyone making one." He disagrees with the contention that it is cheaper and easier for the offense to stay ahead of the defense. Defensive technology has reached the point, Brennan maintains, where it requires equal effort for the offense to keep pace. To this, Simon Ramo, vice chairman of the billion-dollar-a-year TRW electronics company, replies that with "one-tenth of the budget of ABM, thick or thin, I could wreck the system...
...feels were intrinsic characteristics of Oppenheimer. The play, if it is to qualify as drama, ought to tingle with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience. Instead, it is misted over with sadness - as of a man or woman deeply drawn to two equal loves, who must, in the nature of things, lose...
...Binger study has a direct relevance for an unfortunately large number of American families. Leukemia is now the deadliest disease among children aged four to 14, claiming 1,400 victims a year. It is the third leading cause of death in this age group, after accidents, and almost equal to all other cancers combined...
Tobacco companies are traditionally among the first and biggest bidders for TV time, and so far most of them are being just as aggressive for next season. Reynolds Tobacco (Winston, Salem, Camel), which is the TV industry's third-largest sponsor, plans at least to equal the more than $42 million it has budgeted for broadcast advertising during the current season. Admen expect that American Tobacco (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) will spend about the same as last year: more than $26 million. Liggett & Myers is also holding the line on TV. Some of the companies have been negotiating...