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...that they cannot find in the U.S. or in Western Europe. Finally, an American policy of extended trade with the Soviet Union would allow so-called "neutral" or non-committed nations, such as India, to breathe more easily. A relaxed East-West atmosphere would grant these countries a freer radius of action, and allow them to remain neutral with less fear of alienating either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R...
...rate of climb (2,500 ft. per minute) twice as fast as the average piston-engine airliners and a maximum altitude of 50,000 ft. It is so maneuverable in approaches that it can circle an airfield at 500 ft. in a radius of less than a mile; on one occasion a Boeing test pilot put it through a slow roll at 2,000 ft. The plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 engine, the most powerful (well over 10,000 lbs. thrust) in production in the Western world. (The J57 drives such key military planes...
...vacationing undergraduate will not be able to find accommodations within a 15-mile radius of Hanover during the 45th Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend...
...customers within 40 minutes' driving time) rather than smaller suburban areas. The first to go into operation will be the $30 million Bergen Mall at Paramus, N.J., expected to be the biggest U.S. shopping center. Puckett estimates that there are 1,588,000 customers within the 40-minute radius...
...tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...