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...prospect, then, is for the Army and Marines to shrink proportionally more than the Air Force and the Navy. While McNamara emphasized a balance of forces and strengthened conventional elements as well as nuclear components of the arsenal, Laird is likely to encourage at least a partial return to the approach of the Eisenhower years. The stress then was on developing strategic nuclear weapons?long-range bombers, missiles...
...this braintrust operation, it appeared, was to show his colors with his customary frankness. He was not announcing his candidacy-or not exactly. Muskie did allow that the presidency is "the kind of challenge that I'd feel to be the ultimate experience in political life." Would he shrink from it? "Certainly not." But he is also philosophical about his chances for the nomination: "I don't have quite the head of steam about running for President that I had six months ago. If I didn't get the nomination, it wouldn't leave me with...
...expiring like a perforated cowpoke, shot down to a mere five by critics of TV violence. Situation comedies-"sitch-coms," in the jargon of the trade-are up to 25, three more than last year. Adventure shows, in which journalists, lawyers or spies match wits and gimmicks, will shrink to 16, v. 18 last year...
...brilliantly floodlit rocket gives off rays of light like a star sapphire, it seems entirely possible that so beautiful a machine might reach the moon. But with sunrise and the reappearance of the normal landscape, doubt intrudes; eventually, at a distance of three miles, the rocket seems to shrink in size and magic until it becomes an act of almost Promethean gall to aim it at the heavens...
...sixth of Upjohn's total sales. With that much money at stake, the FDA will have to battle for what it believes to be patients' interests. Ley, who succeeded James L. ("Go-Go") Goddard as commissioner a year ago, has made it clear that he will not shrink from the fight...