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Louisiana-born, Irish Baptist McCormack will need his charm and know-how at Comsat. The corporation is busy with plans to link its communications system with an Apollo satellite to be orbited next year by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and to offer Pacific communication similar to Early Bird's European hookup. After that will come a new generation of Comsat satellites that will provide worldwide links with stations in at least 45 countries. On the ground, Comsat is embroiled in arguments. Television networks are unhappy about Comsat's high rates ($5,245 an hour in prime...
...Lockheed's selling points in the C-5A competition was its know-how in the manufacture of military transports, including two of the most effective, the C-130 Hercules and the new C-141 Star-Lifter. On top of $7 million from the Government, Lockheed since 1957 has put $11 million of its own money into its C-5A project, set up a special division at its Marietta, Ga., plant and hired 2,000 people to work on research, mockups and planning of construction facilities. Into its full-scale mockup, Lockheed put a completely equipped instrument panel, hooked...
After this situation has been squeezed for as many leers as possible, Rock tricks Leslie into thinking that she turns into a raving nymphomaniac after a few drinks. (Ha!) In revenge, she uses her psychological know-how to render Ladies' Man Hudson impotent. (Ha-ha!) In counterrevenge, he pretends that she has made him homosexual; he shacks up in a motel with a girl who is dressed up to look like a pretty young...
...under the slothful surface, India is astir with powerful new social and economic forces. The nation does not now possess the know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency...
...Administration's policy in Viet Nam will not convince anyone that we are right, but will only justify the critics of America who say that we have nothing to offer the world except technical know-how and multiplied "overkill" to obliterate large sections of our globe. Our vital interests lie right in our backyard, with Herculean labors right at our own feet-labors to make Americans secure, free and prosperous...