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Spectacular Pancake. There were potential dangers, Lapp warned, in the U.S. ABM system, which will use Spartan missiles armed with one-megaton warheads to intercept incoming ICBMs high above the atmosphere and smaller, faster Sprint missiles to intercept in the atmosphere any missiles that evade the Spartans...
...Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip in one of the Pennsy's private "company" coaches, and reports that it was spartan, overheated, and far from the sybaritic comforts of the days of the rail barons...
...McNamara, my boss for the past two years, I should like to make a few observations on our era: glamour and personality, petty and inconsequential qualities seem to play much too great a role in the selection of our national leaders. Mr. McNamara, with his drab, oldfashioned, almost spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated to the second-class showcase...
...developed an over-the-horizon radar capable of tracking a missile from the moment of blast-off at Russia's Tyuratam ICBM complex; the new radar will be fully operational in February and will give Washington 30 minutes' warning of a potential attack. The new three-stage Spartan anti-ballistic missile will also increase U.S. ability to intercept any incoming missile...
...discounting (TIME cover, July 6, 1962), Korvette's haphazard management was not equal to its ambition of simultaneously upgrading merchandise, adding new services and expanding the New York-based chain into the midwest. To check his chain's decline, Ferkauf last year merged into apparel-making Spartans Industries (which has promised the Federal Trade Commission to sell its own 96 Spartan-Atlantic discount stores) and turned over the reins to Spartans Chairman Charles Bassine...