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...advances in weaponry and more efficient management, defense spending, which in the past decade provided the wages for one in every twelve workers, leveled off last year and thus actually declined in relation to the nation's rising G.N.P. The economy is sufficiently resilient to cope with much sharper cuts in the military budget, by increased federal spending for civilian purposes, by tax reductions or, most likely, by a combination of both...
TIME plus the tests and teaching aids make up a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to help bring today's world into sharper focus in the classroom. Teachers who wish additional information about the TIME Education Program may write: TIME Inc. Education Department, Radio City, P.O. Box 666, New York...
...present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them -No. 11 - was described by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as "one of the most remarkable scientific photographs...
...certainly true that he was much tougher and much sharper after the Bay of Pigs, and much more effective in the October 1962 missile confrontation against Cuba and the Soviet Union. But the lessons of the Bay of Pigs remained to haunt him and the U.S. The lessons were many. Secrecy and deviousness are necessary in the fight against Communism-but it is naive to assume that a nation like the U.S. can launch a sizable military operation and not be found out. It is useful to appeal to dissidents inside Communist countries-but given the known nature of Communist...
During the week, the Administration carefully fed out, bit by bit, enough information to give the people of the U.S. a sharper picture of the situation's seriousness. At a news conference, the President warned: "Heavy infiltration of North Vietnamese forces has created new dangers and difficulties in South Viet Nam. Increased aggression from the North may require an increased American response on the ground ... It is quite possible that new and serious decisions will be necessary in the future...