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...that, Amiable Anastas clearly had a bill of goods to sell the U.S. Unmistakably, his was the pitch of an ever-reasonable, just-plain-folks Russian competitor bent on straightening out a few minor differences. Unquestionably, his method was part of Russia's newest device -the soft sell that began last year with the assignment of Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington, polished thereafter with headline-catching informal talks between newly ingratiating Nikita Khrushchev and such prominent U.S. callers as Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
Radiation Erosion. The newest and most radical moon theory was developed by British Cosmologist Thomas Gold, now at Harvard. Professor Gold agrees that the moon was pockmarked long ago by large meteors, and it may have been built up entirely by such accretion. But he does not think that the smooth, dark areas that are called maria (seas), because early astronomers thought they were exactly that, are filled with lava. He thinks that they are low places full of fine dust that was removed by a kind of erosion from the moon's highlands. In some places...
...atomic research and development. The result, despite problems of security ("Don't look at anything on that table, point your camera straight down this aisle") and radiation hazards ("You can stay in this room only 50 seconds"), are first pictures of some of the nation's newest and most significant nuclear developments. See the eight pages of color pictures with the cover story in BUSINESS, The Powerhouse...
...would not think of drilling the sheriff, robbing the morning stage or shooting up a saloon. The current crop of gun toters consists of butchers, businessmen and other working folk, intent only on competitive fun as they draw against one another in one of the reformed West's newest and fastest-growing sports...
...routed the MIGs. The big difference lay in pilot quality: the Nationalist airmen were eager and carefully trained-their flying time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced and indecisive, poor in gunnery and teamwork: The U.S. Air Force air-transported its newest F-104 Starfighters from the U.S. to Formosa in a matter of days, got them airborne and onto Red radar screens at 1,400 m.p.h...