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...soared to impressive adjectival heights in describing the Communist heaven awaiting those Russians who can manage to hang on for another 20 years. By 1980, he promised, the gross national product will have grown fivefold, industrial production sixfold, and total farm output 3½ times. No one would then work long hours for low pay, and every family would have its own rent-free apartment. Best of all, Nikita promised that by 1965 each Russian would have the incredible bounty of "almost three pairs of shoes per year. "Some of the 1980 "miracles" compared with current U.S. levels...
...Care of Dependent Children. That meeting established the seemingly simple principle that a child was better off with a family, even if it was not his own, than he was in the cold and impersonal atmosphere of an institution. As Roosevelt said, "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons...
Aerospace is a cerebral industry where Saturn stands for a product as well as a target; where "Aeronutronic" is not a nervous disorder but a new branch of the Ford Motor Co.; where one week's output from a major factory can be shipped in the tail end of a station wagon, and a cupful of sensitive components, such as microwave diodes, is worth $150,000. It makes men talk in superlatives. Says E. V. Huggins, executive committee chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corp.: "The aerospace business is the most mind-stretching, imagination-producing, forward-looking activity a company...
Jones chose to regard Northrop not as a collection of product lines but as a storehouse of skills. Though its F89 and Snark rapidly became obsolete, Northrop, in building them, had become expert in the fields of guidance, communications, fire control and optics. Tom Jones, steadily moving up through the Northrop hierarchy, recommended sweeping changes to exploit the company's spectrum of esoteric knowledge. By the time he took over the presidency from Collins in 1959, Northrop had become subcontractor to the whole space age, had even erased the word "Aircraft" from its corporate title. "It made much more...
...masses of potential customers," it would have a definite reluctance to use nuclear weapons. Arnoni said "war would not obliterate any of the major nations with the possible exception of Germany." Hostility to another nation is not the cause of a war, but rather a preliminary or by-product. "Governments seldom engage in the emotionalism they encourage in people." But Russia's hatred of Germany might prove an exception to this maxim...