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...over the adequacy of the Eisenhower Administration defense programs to cope with the dangers of the coming "missile gap" (TIME, Feb. 8). Nixon defends the Administration program with no sign of misgivings. Among the Democratic hopefuls, Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington have hammered hardest at the missile gap, but Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been frankest in facing the prospect that more defense might cost more money. The nation must increase the "portion of our national resources" devoted to missile programs, he says. Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force...
Electron Cutter. United Aircraft Corp.'s Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about...
...that cause Dwight Eisenhower fought one of his hardest and most successful battles in 1959. In January, when he formally announced his determination to balance the budget at $77 billion, the lopsided Democratic congressional majority hooted and howled. Indeed, it seemed all but impossible at a time when recession and the challenge of the U.S.S.R.'s Sputniks had ballooned the deficit to some $12 billion...