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...surface. Originally, the Air Force planned to load Minutemen on specially built railroad cars and send the missiles around the U.S. so that no enemy could zero in on them. But it turned out that the rail-riding Minuteman would increase costs by 60%; and last fortnight, after spending $108 million on the project, the Defense Department canceled the railroad scheme, decided to tuck all Minutemen underground...
...scene. Crockford's reopened near its old location as a staid, serious bridge club, numbered among its members U.S. Ace Charles Goren and Britain's Iain (Bridge fs an Easy Game) Macleod, new chairman of the Conservative Party, who resigned from the club in a huff last fortnight when Crockford's launched its new gambling casino...
...burning myself out," confessed Jordan's hard-living King Hussein, 26. as he ended a fortnight's physical checkup in London. "The doctors have advised me to take three days rest each week and a month off every six months. I'm not to do any more aerobatics, and I must fly only in pressurized planes.'' Happily, after eight beleaguered years on the precarious Hashemite throne, the doughty descendant of Mohammed felt he could afford an occasional rehabilitating breather. "Things are now going well at home,'' reported Hussein. "We are over the battle...
...overstimulate the economy with too much easy money. The still high rate of unemployment, however, acts to check any inclination by the Federal Reserve to slow economic growth with tighter money-a mistake that the Fed, abetted by the Eisenhower Administration, made after the 1958 recession. Fortnight ago. Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. gently warned that he would not continue to sluice additional bank credit into the economy indefinitely. This was a polite way of saying that he was prepared to raise interest rates if the demand for money increased too rapidly. But the consensus among U.S. economists last...
...fear that too many Latin American countries are dragging their feet on the reforms they agreed would be their contributions to the Alliance for Progress. By his presence in Latin America, he hopes to honor the cooperative and nudge the laggards. Addressing Latino Alliance experts in Washington fortnight ago, Kennedy warned: "The urgent needs of our people in this hemisphere cannot wait . . . Measured by the past, we have moved swiftly; measured by the needs of the future, we must all do much better...