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...second generation of solid-fuel missiles, designed for mass production and mass deployment through the mid-1960s, must have smaller, higher-yield thermonuclear warheads to fit their smaller nose cones. The Navy's Polaris engineers managed to test their bird's initial warhead just before the moratorium, but could not test its higher-yield follow-up warhead; the Air Force's Minuteman (see SCIENCE) and the Army's Pershing are being developed at a cost of millions to fit warheads that have not been tested, and, under the moratorium, may not be. All these tests could...
...SUIT PRICES, holding stable this year, will rise $5 a suit on 1960 fall lines, says Jerome I. Udell, chairman of big Gramercy Park clothes. Industry looks for 7% hike in labor costs with new contract next spring, plus other higher costs...
...Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely 1% of the 4,000,000-man labor force...
...greatest difficulty which the Authority faces is derived from the continual decline in patronage. Since 1946, the number of riders has dropped 50 per cent, and with the opening of every new expressway or the imposing of a higher fare, the number drops even more...
...annual Heptagonal Games in New York were tragic. Depived of Fitzgerald and Jack Benjamin, who incurred what seemed to be stress fractures, the Crimson placed no one higher than 20th...