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...Force has a "backup," or reserve ICBM, the Martin Titan, currently running twelve to 14 months behind Atlas. Titan is a two-stage, liquid-fuel missile with an Atlas-type nose cone and an Atlas-sized engine thrust that can power a hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
...enemy territory to mix up enemy radar. Advantage of Fiberglas: it is invisible to radar and infra-red detection. Northrop is also developing Crossbow, a vicious air-to-ground missile designed to home in on enemy radar stations and kill them. Another probable radar-killer: Navy's experimental Martin Bullpup...
...York Chamber of Commerce and Chairman William H. Moore of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. both appealed to the Fed to ease credit by lowering the amount of funds that commercial banks are required to hold in reserve against demand deposits. But Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., speaking at Richmond, Va., still branded inflation as the economy's enemy No. 1-hardly the talk of a man prepared to make money easier...
...Crimson mile relay team composed of Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes is pitted against runners from Yale and Georgetown. A two-mile quartet, including Bill Thompson, captain Pete Reider, Art Cohn, and Ed Martin will meet Yale and Holy Cross. McCurdy thinks that the latter unit is "the best two-mile relay team we've had here in quite a long time...
Promising sophomores like Ed Martin and Pat Liles will be watched especially closely, in view of their excellent records last year. Martin will probably start in both the mile and the one thousand yard races, while Liles will compete in the broad jump, an event he won in last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet. Middle-distance man Art Cahn and jumper Bob Downes will also be making their first starts at the varsity level...