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Sir: The news that Adam Yarmolinsky has been sacrificed in order to get the anti-poverty bill through Congress [Aug. 14] comes as a sad shock to those of us who have known him since Yale Law School days (1946-48). What has delighted me about Adam has been that...
Actually, Goldwater's estimate had some basis in fact-as far as it went. Goldwater figures that the U.S. Strategic Air Command's estimated 1,080 first-line bombers can carry 24-mega-ton bombs, or, 25,920 megatons of destructive power. He places total megaton capability of...
The key point, however, is that the Pentagon considers total megatonnage less crucial than the capacity to deliver a sufficient number of warheads to do the required job. The current strategy says bombers are less likely to penetrate enemy defenses than missiles are. Furthermore, says the Pentagon, the U.S. will...
Not that there is anything to be scared of. Control Data's success is due to the shrewd marketing strategy and careful planning program worked out by the eleven Sperry Rand engineers-led by Norris-who founded the firm in 1957 after tiring of life in a big corporation...
Changing the Sea. So far, researchers have found 33,000 ways in which fiber glass could replace steel, aluminum, wood or cloth. Fiber glass now goes into ladders and luggage, pipes and Polaris missiles, building sidings and shotguns. Some manufacturers are developing it for dresses, and the Canadians are making...