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What will happen when the two sides finally get down to setting a date to begin the talks? First, the U.S. and the Soviets must take stock of just where they stand. In existing offensive weapons delivery systems, both sides have intercontinental bombers, land-based ICBMs and atom-powered submarines with sea-launched nuclear missiles. The U.S. has 510 B-52 and 80 B58 jet bombers as against 150 turboprop Soviet TU-95 Bears. There are 1,054 Minuteman and Titan II U.S. ICBMs, v. about 1,000 Russian ICBMs in the SS series. Undersea, the U.S. has 41 Polaris...
Superintendent Raftery thinks that the park can accommodate a training field, but not a commercial airport and a projected community of 1,000,000 people. By now, though, Dade County envisages more runways soon and by 1980, the nation's biggest commercial airport, covering more land than the entire city of Miami. Equally enthusiastic, the U.S. Transportation Department has granted $700,000 to develop the first runway, and to look into high-speed ground transportation, such as a monorail train and air-cushion vehicles running between the jetport and Miami...
...plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church in a way important to the Reformation: priests had proved unable to protect themselves or their people from what was widely assumed to be God's vengeance. By lowering the value of land -because there were few workers left to till it-and raising the price of labor, the death toll also helped bring to an end the old system of feudal villenage...
Hillaby is a traveler and science writer. Apart from his legs, his greatest strength lies in a command of natural science and history, and a dry, witty style. He blends sharp observation of topography, birds and beasts with an unusual feeling for the ancient human chronicle of a land inhabited for thousands of years. On a vast British army artillery range in Redesdale, for instance, he pointed out to a brigadier that Romans had operated large catapults in exactly the same spot 1,600 years earlier...
...keeper told Hillaby, "including, I imagine, the Lord." After so much local color, the author was only mildly disappointed to discover on finally reaching John o' Groat's that the photographic concession there was owned by the same man as at Land...