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...another level, perhaps the greatest contribution the Institute could make to politics would be to produce a group of young men fired up about specific issues. Harvard and M.I.T. now have the resources to pin down the issues that will be important 20 years from now and to equip the "junior fellows" to be specialists in one of them...
...ARMS. With the stepped-up pace of the war, the Viet Cong can no longer rely on captured U.S. weapons. "Hanoi has undertaken a program to re-equip its forces in the South with Communist-produced weapons." Among them: a "new family" of Chinese Communist 7.62-mm. carbines, assault rifles and light machine guns, as well as heavier recoilless rifles, mortars, antitank mines, grenade launchers and bazookas. Whole Viet Cong companies have been outfitted with these new arms. The ominous conclusion: Viet Cong reliance on weapons that require ammo and parts from outside "indicates the growing confidence of Hanoi...
Other items include scholarships for medical and dental students "who would otherwise not be able to enter or complete such training," grants to help cover the operating costs of medical and dental schools and improve their teaching, funds to modernize existing hospitals, loans to build and equip group-practice clinics, and new federal controls over the production and distribution of habit-forming drugs...
With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the idea succeeds in New York, it may spread to other cities. Indeed, cable TV companies optimistically foresee a system in which television will no longer depend on broadcast alone, but will be sent over a microwave-wire combination everywhere...
...five years since his father's death, Bob, now 41, has made Motorola a decentralized giant. Its projected $400 million in sales this year covers such a broad range of products and aptitudes that Motorola last week 1) won a contract to equip an eigtlt-mile stretch of New York's crime-beleaguered subway system with an ex perimental two-way radio hookup for policemen, and 2) announced a new line of electronic circuits that will sell for as much as 77% less than present manufactured units...