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...haul our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving space superiority. Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles, but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy." In that effort, Schriever made it substantially clear, the U.S. was determined not to lag...
However, tape will lag somewhat in replacing film for much TV production because, so far at least, it cannot be edited as flexibly. Also, its dramatic possibilities for swift visual news coverage will not be fully realized until lighter, more mobile machines can be built to accompany newsmen. Closer at hand is the prospect of great savings in heavy overtime pay now shelled out by broadcasters for night and weekend operations. Tape should enable them to shoot most of their broadcasting schedule in normal weekday working hours. Across the U.S., independent stations as well as the networks have given Ampex...
...Boston's problems are really not of its own creation," Soloway said. "I think the state should give much more to Boston and the large cities and towns." In addition, he said, "statewise, we lag in school aid, per capita grants to cities, and city welfare problems...
...likely to be completely knocked out, at least for the moment. Our system of roads will stand up [except for] vital spots such as bridges." So the U.S. should store road-repair equipment near the vulnerable points "in such a way that transportation throughout the country will not even lag. We can be back in business within a few hours of any attack." Similarly, the U.S. could store fleets of trucks, gasoline supplies, power units ("nuclear energy might be the best"), spare parts, machine tools...
...modern toilet facilities in every room, central heating and air conditioning into the Grand Hotel in Calcutta and the Imperial in New Delhi, Swiss, German and French managers-bone-bred hoteliers-into most of his hotels. By Indian standards his hotels are excellent, but by U.S. standards they lag, and Oberoi knows it, hopes the prospective tie to Pan Am's Intercontinental will help...