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Although results of the Nike-Matador match were officially classified as secret, the Army lost no time in leaking the news that Nike had blasted the jet-powered Matador from the sky. The Air Force was prompt with a reply. Four Nikes, said the airmen, had been fired at a Matador, and every one of them had missed...
...horrors of a nuclear war prompt Acheson to criticize sharply Dulles' policy of massive retaliation, which could have resulted in a "fatal miscalculation." He feels that nothing would reassure U. S. allies more than a blunt statement that this country will use nuclear weapons only if a "desperate death struggle" is forced upon us by a surprise atomic attack...
President Pusey and President James Killian of M.I.T. have been invited to a dinner meeting with the municipal planning board and local business leaders to discuss the best way to get prompt action on urban renewal. Many citizens of Cambridge feel that the University and M.I.T. should join the city in setting up a permanent committee to deal with other major problems--traffic, housing, schools, etc.--and to coordinate action now and in the future. "If Harvard, M.I.T. and the city don't work together, we might as well give the whole works back to the Indians," one local businessman...
...Prompt Action Sought...
...Getting prompt action on urban renewal is the immediate concern of the city planners. The federal government approved Cambridge as a site for the project earlier this year, but the urban renewal committee, which must now be formed to plan specific areas for redevelopment, has not yet been set up by the city government...