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Tunnel Vision. On their bombing runs, U.S. pilots need all the sophisticated hardware and know-how they can get. Never have they gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air missiles. To complicate their mission, Washington demands high-precision pinpoint bombing to avoid endangering civilian populations; pilots must get in close, fast, and make no mistakes...
Passionate Know-How. Jarrell's chosen theme was life made precious through knowledge of its vulnerability, and with unerring instinct he chose to express it often through the reveries of a woman -a woman who hides her deepest findings about life lest they destroy family morale. The theme is best expressed in "The Woman at the Washington...
Under Geneen, the company developed the Strategic Air Command's control switching network, maintains Washington's "hot line" to MOSCOW, operates the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) system. It even drew on its overall management know-how to pick up the thankless task of running the federal Job Corps project at Camp Kilmer, which was bound to be controversial if only because residents of surrounding New Jersey communities did not want a conclave of so-called juvenile delinquents in their midst. After a noisy start, the camp has gone out of the headlines, and even...
...Name of Law. Of all the new territories, it is the Jordanian West Bank that offers Israel the greatest opportunity and the greatest challenge. If a viable West Bank economy can be created with Israeli know-how and the cooperation of the conquered Arabs, the region could well develop into a solution to the refugee problem, a defused buffer between Israel and the Arab world, a showcase proving that Jew and Arab can work and live together...
Recalling American Can's earlier entry into the British market, David Ducat, 63, who becomes Metal Box's chairman next month, says gingerly that "Some people never learn." But Ducat knows well that the U.S. rival has the resources and know-how to make a sustained effort. Indeed, most Britons are expecting a lively battle, figure that Metal Box may even have to resort to some unaccustomed pricecutting to meet the new competition. "Metal Box's profitable monopoly," says London's Observer, "is bound to take a knock. By how much is another matter...