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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily News has-sold half' a million. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has a flag inscribed somewhat belligerently: "Our Flag; love it or leave." And Tiffanys offers a 14-carat lapel flag "for those who are still as proud of the American flag as we are." Price...
...site system the Administration has proposed, Laird estimates the price at $10.8 billion. Officials point out that annual review of the need for the program could cut the project off long before that much is spent. ABM critics argue, however, that the final cost will turn out to be much higher. They fear that Safeguard may be only the first segment of a greatly expanded "thick" deployment. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a former Secretary of the Air Force, has put the cost of such a system as high as $400 billion, although even many of Safeguard's detractors...
...billion). The Pentagon wants to do that in addition to Safeguard; the Air Force is already seeking out "hard rock" silo locations that would make ICBMs more resistant even to multimegaton near misses. Wiesner, Rathjens and Weinberg suggest that the number of ICBMs could be doubled for the price of Safeguard, which would mean that more than 1,000 missiles would survive an attack by the 420 SS-9s that the Pentagon's Foster hypothesized. Wohlstetter answers: "There are safer and cheaper ways of getting [an assured] force of a given size than to buy a much larger...
...started at $250,000 and went up by $50,000 leaps. Finally, the auctioneer called "Sold!" For $1,159,200, Los Angeles Industrialist and Art Collector Norton Simon had acquired a self-portrait made when Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was in his early 30s. Steep though it was, the price was a record for neither Rembrandt nor Norton Simon. The collector has already spent $2,200,000 for a portrait of the artist's son and an un disclosed sum for one of Rembrandt's common-law wife. Said he: "Now I have almost all the family...
...additional $6 billion on Medicare). Under present regulations, Medicaid fees are determined by the states. The new rule establishes federal standards that will limit fees in most states to the level that prevailed last January. Increases will be permitted, but only under a formula based on the consumer price index. The new regulation is expected to save about $65 million in its first year of operation and substantially more later...