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...last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...
Break for the Bright. Grades in each division would overlap, the grammar school offering some high-school courses for the bright student, the high school offering some elementary courses for the slow student. Bright students would go right to college from high school, average or slower students spending varying periods in the junior college preparing for college or undertaking vocational studies. Throughout their schooling, students would be knit together in groups of their own age for all nonacademic activities...
NONSCHEDULED AIRLINES will be chopped nearly 50%, if Civil Aeronautics Board examiners have their way. They recommended to the board that 27 of the surviving 60 big nonscheduled carriers (among them: All American Airways, Monarch Air Service, U.S. Aircoach) be put out of business, on grounds that they overlap scheduled lines. For the 33 other nonscheduled lines, including most of the biggest names, the examiners want a revised classification as "supplemental carriers," which will allow them unlimited charter service plus three independent passenger flights between any two points each month...
Operating rooms are in pairs around a central group of instrument and scrub rooms so that a busy surgeon need lose not a minute between operations, and in certain cases can let them overlap. The old theater design is gone. Medical students no longer need to peer over each other's shoulders, straining for a view of a master-surgeon's deft-fingered skill. A TV camera relays a color image to viewing rooms throughout the hospital. A two-way phone system enables the surgeon to explain what he is doing, while graduate students...
...Superior Court.* When Bethlehem and Youngstown lawyers came to Barnes with their merger plans, they found him a man hard to convince. One day they showed him a big map of the U.S. divided into zones to prove that Bethlehem's and Youngstown's markets did not overlap. Barnes took one look, then launched into a 15-minute speech pointing out that the map was gerrymandered and did not conform to market facts. The steel company lawyers then pointed out that Youngstown is the sole manufacturer of four categories of steel products, and Bethlehem of 20. Only...