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...ever expected NORAD to perform the miracle of knocking down everything that an enemy might throw at the U.S. But by probing the skies, sound ing the warning, and blunting the effect of any attack, NORAD is performing, with increasing proficiency, its main function: to mesh with the Strategic Air Command's long-range bombers 'and U.S. retaliatory rocket power to convince an enemy that the cost of aggression would be exorbitant...
...weighs only 8 Ibs., but its quick-acting brain can even assign priorities when several warnings are called for at once. If engine oil is low, Gina's voice reports the problem, but in case of more urgent danger-say, engine fire-VIPS would replace the oil warn ing with Gina's recorded fire alarm...
...government of the Republic of China, the exhibition contains items formerly belonging to the imperial court at Peiping and represents over eight hundred years of imperial collecting. The items themselves range in time from Shang ritual bronze pots which date about 1500 to 100 B.C. to eighteenth century Ch'ing dynasty enameled vases. Many of the items have not been displayed in more than twenty years. Due to the extreme security measures taken during the transfered of the collection to Taiwan, they have remained crated during and since their removal...
...significant political party in Tanganyika: the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU). In constitutional democracies of the West power structure is a horizontal spectrum of interests which overlap and conflict--rural and urban groups, business and labor, Republican and Democrat, numerous subdivisions. The decision making process is legislative, work- ing by compromise and accommodation of various interests, with certain common agreements as to the lengths that any majority coalition of interests can go in forcing its will on the minority...
...closer-to-home view of U.S. advertis ing came last week from Charles H. Percy, 41, socially aware chairman of Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co. He urged businessmen to sponsor TV programs that contribute to the edification rather than the "stultification of the minds of our people." He suggested that advertisers stop sponsoring "stories of a Wild West that never was" and follow his own company's example by pumping their TV budgets into "controversial public-service programs." Said Percy: "While we recognize that the primary tasks of a business corporation are to provide goods...