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...against such an attack, McNamara has long argued that it would be too expensive. Moreover, he points out, if the U.S. plans to defend itself by exploding the enemy's nuclear warheads in the sky, the nation will also need a vast and costly network of fallout shelters to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, the Senate last week voted $167.9 mil lion to buy Nike X hardware. McNamara has also been reluctant to build nuclear-powered warships for economy reasons-so the Senate voted $150 million for a nuclear-powered guided-missile frigate...
...have affected the Exodus and caused the ten plagues of Egypt 450 miles to the southeast. Professor Anghelos Galanopoulos, head of the Athens observatory's seismological institute, believes that the three days of darkness that oppressed Biblical Egypt may well have been caused by volcanic ash. The fallout of ash was probably heavy enough to ruin crops and cause famine by making the land uncultivatable...
Cloportes is French for lice-and slang for the killers, con men, pimps, prostitutes and safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent...
Thus ended a frantic, seriocomic science-fiction epic that had strained Washington's relations with Spain, given Soviet propagandists a rich fallout of anti-American gibes, indelibly affected the life and folklore of thousands of Spanish campesinos and, by week's end, allowed the world at large its first peek at an H-bomb...
Whatever their leaders may say in a political vein about the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the non-Communist countries of Asia are catching a beneficial economic fallout from American involvement in the fighting there. The need for bases, manpower and supplies is affecting economies all around the rim of the battle area. South Korea expects trade with Viet Nam to increase from $16 million last year to $70 million this year. Taiwan's dealings with Viet Nam, which totaled $40 million last year and represented 9% of all exports, may reach $55 million this year. Hong Kong...