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...years before a large consumer video market can develop. When it does, it will be worth waiting for. In the U.S. alone, more families have television sets than bathtubs. The entire world is a well-tubed market for video tapes, disks, players and recorders in what could become a multibillion-dollar industry...
Sir/The problem of "Empty Pockets. . ."can be solved by a simple reordering of priorities: schools before bombers, houses before missiles, hospitals before napalm. The multibillion-dol-lar defense budget is what's killing us. With defense like this, who needs enemies...
...company that he heads: "You can stop 15 people in the street and not one will know what ITT is. That bothers me." Geneen hardly has that worry today. ITT is a household name. Everybody who reads the headlines knows that the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. is the multibillion-dollar firm that quietly agreed to put up at least $100,000 to help finance this year's Republican National Convention, and shortly thereafter negotiated a controversial settlement in a classic antitrust case. But Geneen's interests scarcely run to backroom politics. By concentrating on business...
...plans for the far-ranging expeditions have been scrubbed, principally to allow the financially pressed space agency to concentrate on the Administration's multibillion-dollar space-shuttle program; one Tour mission, in contrast, would have cost about $700 million. As an alternative, NASA is considering what it euphemistically calls a "mini-grand tour": a flyby of Jupiter and possibly Saturn using modifications of existing vehicles like Mariner 9, still in orbit around Mars. In fact, such a spacecraft is now being prepared for launch from Cape Kennedy for a two-year flight to Jupiter...
...lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...