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...high hopes for Minuteman is that it will prove feasible to launch the bird from moving cars traveling back and forth on the nation's railway system, but research into this possibility is barely getting started under a meager $1,000,000 contract. Needed: a speedup in the Minuteman program, possibly a step-up in production of Polaris subs...
Back to the Village. Any possible speedup at Aswan will be attractive to Nasser, who is pledged "to double the national income [currently a woeful $150 per capita] in ten years." Nasser, the audacious international adventurer, has at last begun looking to his country's internal needs. During a flurry of Cabinet meetings last June and July, the President ordered a rethinking of policies in the light of U.A.R. failures to extend its leadership in the Arab world-not only in Iraq, but also in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Sudan, Libya. One result of this rethinking was Nasser...
...Zeus anti-missile missile, a weapons system that would cost a record $13.5 billion to become effectively operational, drags along on $300 million year-to-year handouts. Promoted by Army as a solution to the near-impossible anti-missile defense role, Nike-Zeus gets neither the funds necessary for speedup nor the kill order recommended by its critics. One factor: the Pentagon, seldom free to make decisions that are purely military, fears the panic and congressional uproar that would be set off by admission that the U.S. owns no hopeful anti-missile missile...
...vast glass-and-marble honeycomb on the edge of Rome, the U.N.'s 77-nation Food and Agriculture Organization met last week to talk about hunger. Binay Ranjan Sen, the former Indian diplomat who had just been re-elected FAO's director general, called for a speedup in "the fight against hunger and malnutrition," and touched the world on one of its rawest nerves...
...Corvette gave the whole Chevy Division a little intrigue, and, believe me, we needed intrigue," says Cole, who likes to use the word "intrigue" to connote sex appeal and daring. Cole still enjoys running Corvettes around Chevy's test tracks at 115 m.p.h. He also ordered a 30% speedup in the escalators of Chevy's new engineering center; engineers call them the "turnpikes...