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That the Russians are multiplying their land-based and submarine-borne missile force more rapidly than the U.S. is not disputed. What is less certain is whether Moscow will attempt to surpass Washington in total number of offensive nuclear warheads. But Laird feels that, for safety's sake, the U.S. must assume that Russia will try just that...
...Harvard ski team, fourth at the end of the Alpine and cross country competition, did not compile enough points in the jumping to prevent successful bids by St. Lawrence and Vermont to surpass the Crimson point total at the Williams Carnival last Saturday...
...Khrushchev's day, for example, Moscow predicted a 1970 output of as much as a trillion kilowatt hours of electricity; the goal was later reduced to 850 billion and last month was lowered again to 740 billion. Output per man-hour, which Khrushchev had boasted would surpass the U.S. level by this year, has been growing at a slower rate for the past two years and stands at only 43% of U.S. labor productivity. Soviet industrial production is now expected to rise only 6.3% this year, v. a 7% growth last year...
...marketing, the key to growth is anticipating, even creating, demand for new products-and some of them surpass yesterday's wildest fantasies. Four-color, full-page advertisements for one such item have been appearing in Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and other publications. An unclothed, deadpan model looks out from under the slyly provocative headline: "Relax. And Enjoy the Revolution." The product is Cupid's Quiver, a $3.50 package of twelve sachets of liquid douche concentrate that is offered in two floral scents (orange blossom and jasmine), as well as two flavor scents (raspberry and champagne...
...rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year not of the compact but of the intermediate-size car-the first year that sales of intermediates will equal or surpass those of standard-size automobiles...