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...Palais des Nations, where some 200 reassembled officials settled back into their bronze and green leather chairs-as usual, leaving three seats vacant for nonattending France-and prepared for the sixth antiwar jaw session since the disarmament conference got under way in 1962. Buoyed by last August's partial test ban treaty, most Western and neutral negotiators expected action this time and greeted a new five-point program from President Johnson as a hopeful starting point. "The U.S.," said one old disarmament warrior, "is pumping so much adrenalin into this old horse that it may die of a heart...
...Force general, liquid-fueled Atlas missiles "were blowing up like tin cans." But later improvements have raised the success average to about 70% . Of 199 Atlas firings, 137 have been successful. For liquid-fueled Titan I, the score reported by the Air Force is 47 successes, ten partial successes, seven failures. For Titan II, just becoming operational: 19 successes, seven partial successes, one failure. For the solid-fueled, Minuteman: 45 successes, eleven partial successes, nine failures...
What is needed, the research report urges, is a new law for direct Government compensation so that disaster victims can get partial payment with emergency speed, with determination of the full amount later. Contractors would still be liable up to a ceiling of perhaps $10 million. Beyond that the Government, ultimate sponsor of the ultrahazardous programs, would...
...partial solution, the services now send officers who are within a semester of a degree to civilian campuses to live at full pay while pursuing fields from physics to philosophy. The Air Academy sends new graduates on to M.I.T. or Caltech for master's degrees; the Army picks 200 enlisted men a year to attend civilian colleges, pays about three-fourths of the cost. The Navy sends even WAVES off to earn science and engineering degrees, pays four-year costs at 19 colleges and universities...
Though the visit to Egypt was only the first leg of his scheduled two-month swing through Africa, the round of sightseeing clearly tired the ailing, 67-year-old Chou. For the first time, Westerners noticed that he has only partial use of his right arm, which was usually clutched tightly over his stomach. At one point, after climbing a flight of stairs at an Aswan power station, the ashen-faced Premier staggered off into a corner as if he were about to faint...