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...still using missiles boosted by auxiliary rockets strapped around the circumference of the main rocket. Because they were so cumbersome that they could not be practically deployed, U.S. strategic planners concluded that the missile gap did not exist either. The photograph of the Soviet's North Sea submarine fleet showed that it was largely a defensive force; the moored submarines shown here turned out to be Whisky-and Foxtrot-class submarines, designed to attack surface ships rather than to launch nuclear missiles...
...eliminated. Heavy jet-fuel drinkers like the Boeing 707 are being phased out in favor of more abstemious planes, like the DC-10 or the 747. In order to cut 60 to 250 lbs. off a jet's weight, Eastern has even stripped the white paint off its fleet, revealing the silvery, polished metal underneath. The fuel saving: almost $1 million per year. Workers are coating the leading edges of some Pan American, Delta and Continental/Air Micronesia jet wings with a plastic substance that cuts down on air friction, reducing drag and saving up to $30,000 a year...
Among the bullion, jewels, plate, rare marble and statuary the fleet brought back, the most celebrated work of art was a group of four antique gilt-bronze horses that Dandolo gave to his republic. They were hoisted, as supreme emblems of conquest, onto pedestals above the entrance to the San Marco Basilica. There they remained for some 750 years, except for a period when they were stolen by Napoleon, and when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world...
...staff of the Campaign News sees foreign influence everywhere; the Portsmouth Herald, "controlled by the foreigner, Lord Thomson of Fleet Street," won't allow the docks at Portsmouth to be expanded, the publication complains. Instead, it insists on a pleasure boat marina, with all the attendant "pleasures of Sodom and Gomorrah keeping the local inhabitants employed as low-paid dishwashers, croupiers, shills and errand boys for the wastrel "industries' of Babylon...
...most plausible culprit was initially thought to be South Africa. Pretoria denied the charge, as well as a subsequent rumor that the South Africans had been testing a tactical weapon for their fleet of Israeli-designed missile boats. Last week CBS News reported another possibility: the light burst had been caused by an Israeli nuclear test conducted with the "help and cooperation" of South Africa. The report, which was based on an unpublished book by two Israeli former journalists, was immediately dismissed by Jerusalem as "complete nonsense" and by Pretoria as "ridiculous." Washington said it had no evidence either...