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...About the story on the anti-ballistic missile [May 26]: No one denies that an ABM system would stop only a fraction of incoming warheads-no defense of any kind in any war has ever been 100% effective. The idea is to sow enough doubt, uncertainty and expense into the plans of the enemy to deter him from striking. The daring technical innovations of high X-ray yield and terminal interception pioneered by the Soviets point the way to a viable ABM defense. Let's build one. NORMAN G. LOOPER Lieutenant, U.S.N. St. Paul...
...powered ships are safe, and to promote their acceptance in ports around the world. Now the Administration says that she has accomplished both her good will and scientific missions. Neither has come cheap. Indeed, experience with Savannah made it painfully clear that income from cargo can pay but a fraction of operating costs of nuclear vessels, which are boosted by extraordinary safety requirements and specialized crew training...
Gell-Mann's theory, would consist of three quarks. Then why does it contain only a fraction of the mass of the quarks? The answer, physicists believe, is that most of the mass of the three quarks in a proton is relativistically converted into the tremendous energy that binds them together...
...contrast to Mayor Katz, who fought a demagogic battle for the nomination (his opponent was "a radical, extremist, and advocate of black power") Hatcher ran a smooth, cool campaign, carrying his appeal to white as well as Negro neighborhoods, promising equal treatment to both. Though a fraction (4.5%) of the city's white voters did cast their ballots for him (as well as 10% of the Negroes), Hatcher indirectly owed his victory to the white-backlash that gave George Wallace the overwhelming support of Gary's white voters in the 1964 presidential primary. Openly appealing to anti-Negro...
...urban sophistication, the most cogent economic fact of Canada today is the push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...