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...ready to fire an unmanned missile through space to the moon. Rocket motors, guidance systems and air frames needed for such a shot can almost be picked up off the shelf for assembly. ARDC has considered setting up an eleventh division for space and space technology. "We have the know-how to hit the moon right now," Schriever says flatly. "The ballistic missile program has established the resources to move into space. Man is inquisitive. He's going to keep pushing at the frontiers...
...like thousands of my countrymen, about to leave "this demiparadise" for Canada, but I feel this would not be necessary if England would climb down from its already tottering pedestal and accept a little more of the good old American "know-how." May I now speak on behalf of many Britons when I say "Thank God for America...
...show's full property rights fell to balding, bushy-browed Bob Saudek, 45, who promptly formed a new packaging firm-Robert Saudek Associates, Inc.-to keep Omnibus on the TV air. Best "guarantee" now, says Saudek, is "the funded know-how of my creative staff," which will include such Omnibus regulars as Cultural Headwaiter Alistair Cooke, Drama Critic Walter Kerr. But the question remains: Can Omnibus maintain the courage of past conceits, the venturesomeness of past successes, the educational luxury of such occasional failures as its go-minute The Iliad, without special subsidy? The signs are encouraging: both current...
...stock more valuable in any future merger. "Then for God's sake," cried Dann, "get out of the Nash and Hudson market. Why don't you diversify? You can make disposable diapers, as far as we're concerned, just so long as you have the know-how and can make a profit...
...laws, dropping the oil-is-ours nationalism of the past, invite exploration. But there was a sobering reminder in the failure to find oil in Peru's Sechura region: the normal signs may all be favorable, but you never can tell until someone with plenty of money and know-how gives it a good, hard...