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...because, although $1 billion has been lavished on the program, "the possibility of achieving a militarily useful aircraft in the foreseeable future is still very remote." The U.S., he went on, would have to spend at least another billion "to achieve the first experimental flight." The President proposed to shunt "the entire subject matter" of nuclear-powered flight to the budget of the Atomic Energy Commission, where "it belongs as a nondefense research item...
...fight against Castro is also getting tougher. The break in diplomatic relations, plus the U.S. decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...
...children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands of "technikums"-vocational schools...
Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...