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...these things are within U.S. capabilities, he argues, and to be safe, the U.S. must assume that anything it can do the Soviet Union can eventually do too. Wohlstetter questions Rathjens' conclusion that, at worst, "a quarter of our Minuteman force could be expected to survive a Soviet pre-emptive S59 attack." Wohlstetter complains that Rathjens overestimates by two-thirds the blast resistance of U.S. silos and unjustifiably assumes that the Soviet multiple warheads would carry only one-megaton payloads. "Where scientists differ," he concedes, "laymen may be tempted to throw up their hands and choose to rely...
...gimmickry recalls the Veeck of old, who was baseball's most imaginative impresario. While operating the Cleveland Indians (1946-49), the St. Louis Browns (1951-53) and the White Sox (1959-61), he annoyed fellow owners by introducing jugglers and tightrope walkers into the pre-game festivities and staging cow-milking contests for players. Though Veeck is perhaps best remembered as the man who sent a 3-ft. 7-in. midget to bat against the Detroit Tigers,* he also performed some praiseworthy services for the game. He broke the color barrier in the American League by hiring Outfielder Larry...
...petition for a new trial, the Palmers accuse their first lawyer of "inexperience, incompetency and/or neglect" in defending them. Among other points, they charge that the attorney did not file essential pre-trial motions, took no exception to "prejudicial evidence" and failed to contest the composition of the jury. Backing the family in the legal battle is a Connecticut committee formed to "Remember the Palmers...
Astronomers have long known pre cisely how fast the earth moves as it cir cles around its own star, the sun (66,500 m.p.h.), and how fast the solar system revolves around the core of its own galaxy, the Milky Way (481,000 m.p.h...
Attorney General John Mitchell has gone much farther than any of his pre decessors toward promoting the proposition that bigness in business is intrinsically bad. In June he warned that the Government "may very well" chal lenge any merger between two of the largest 200 U.S. companies. Last week Mitchell proved to be as good as his word. His trustbusters announced that they will file suit to block the planned merger of Harold Geneen's International Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest and one of the best-managed conglomerates, with Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The merger would rank among the largest...