Word: superior
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Some military experts think so, even if the U.S.S.R. did not evade the ban by carrying out clandestine tests. Development of tactical nuclear weapons making it possible for the U.S. to overcome Communist superiority in military manpower without resorting to mass-destruction H-bombs, has long been a hope and goal of U.S. military thinking. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray argues that the only way the U.S. can escape from the "balance of terror" is to shift from reliance on mass-destruction H-bombs to reliance on tactical nuclear weapons. A test ban, he says, would stop development...
...that tobaccomen can no longer sing, shout or advertise their superior claims to health protection, they are busy researching novelty in flavors, e.g., chocolate and peppermint. They are also using their cash reserves from high profits to diversify. Reynolds has already bought an aluminum-foil plant, Archer Aluminum, and Bowman Gray is looking for other companies to buy into, particularly in the consumer field. "We'd go into almost anything," he says, "except the mule trade." The industry looks to the future with confidence, not because it expects to be spared more crises?the next one could be definite proof...
...that Wisconsin's voters could see of the political world, there were only two Democrats who mattered. For six weeks Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Massachusetts' John Kennedy had been waging the battle of their political lives from Superior to Fond du Lac. Kennedy's 70-year-old mother Rose, flanked by a bevy of daughters, left no Kaffeeklatsch unpercolated; Muriel Humphrey passed out thousands of copies of her celebrated recipe for beef soup. Brother Ted Kennedy gamely made the first ski jump of his career for the cause, and Brother Bob, erstwhile counsel...
...Ossining, N.Y., and in 1918 the young priest became a member of the first Maryknoll group of four missionary priests to be sent to China. In 1927, when the mission became a vicariate, he became its first bishop. Bishop Walsh returned to the U.S. in 1936 to serve as superior-general of the Maryknoll Fathers. Cardinal Spellman sent him back to China again in 1948 as executive secretary of the Catholic Central Bureau, coordinating all missionary, cultural, welfare and educational activities of the church in China...
...onetime radio-station repairman, Sony now exports 25,000 pocket radios a month to the U.S. and Canada, will soon introduce a portable, all-transistor TV set. Next month it will also start exporting a new semiconductor that it invented: a "tunnel diode." U.S. companies have found it so superior to present diodes for many uses that Gen eral Electric, RCA and others are hustling to mass-produce their...