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Force. Kennedy bluntly rejected the missile swap and increased the speed of the U.S. military buildup. The President considered choking Cuba's economy with a complete blockade. To knock the missiles out in a hurry, the White House discussed sabotage, commando raids, naval bombardment or a pinpoint bombing attack. And there was the strong possibility that invasion might finally be required...
During the recent crisis the DRE was again in the news. Its newsletter issued early last week purported to pinpoint the size and location of Russian missile bases under construction in Cuba. Yesterday its leaders expressed disappointment that the United States had reached an accord with the Soviet Union before removing Premier Castro by force of arms...
...Ability Pinpointed. With hefty support from the U.S. Office of Education, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation TALENT has already tested 440,000 high school students -one out of every 20 in the U.S.-and begun tracking their career orbits for the next 25 years. The purpose is to pinpoint the students' abilities, trace the impact (or nonimpact) of U.S. education on their development, and follow their failures and successes through the 19805. Last week Flanagan issued the first of many progress reports: Design for a Study of American...
Little Lake's teachers supported this academic transformation-but C.T.A. charges that Stanley and the school board neglected "human relations" in the process. Sample beefs: Stanley requested administrators to pinpoint the "worst teacher" in the district, threatened to cut poor teachers' salaries if they did not resign. To combat such "intolerable personnel practices," C.T.A. unleashed the sanction...
...reflecting a beam back and forth between carefully placed mirrors and clocking the time it takes the light to cover that measured distance. Dr. Lowther proposes to improve this experiment by using the pure brilliance of newly developed lasers (TIME, April 20) and new electronic techniques. He hopes to pinpoint the speed of light to three parts per 100 million, which will give the distance to the moon within...