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...worth noting that the agreed launcher level is lower than that of the U.S. some ten years ago. If the Vladivostok guidelines are converted into a definitive ten-year agreement, it should provide a good measure of certainty as to the maximum number of launchers in the Soviet strategic forces over the next ten years. That would be invaluable information for U.S. forceplanning during this period. Concerns about growing vulnerability of ICBMS are not laid to rest by this agreement, but one can now estimate this danger with greater precision-and, if necessary, make changes in U.S. forces...
While some details were yet to be revealed and others depend upon further negotiations, the general outlines were clear. If completed and ratified, the ten-year pact would impose two kinds of ceilings on strategic nuclear arms...
...memories are short, contracts and knives long. So it was when the president of Paramount Pictures, Frank Yablans, 39, the promoter of such blockbusters as Love Story ($84 million net), The Godfather ($145 million) and Frank Yablans ($250,000 a year), finally got an offer he could not refuse. The remaining 6½ years of his ten-year contract were bought up by Paramount. Yablans rejected the idea that he had created a personality less lovable than Genghis Khan. "I am not a cocky bastard," he said. "I have my style, and in this business, you must do things bigger...
...searing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam was set free last week. Former Army Lieutenant William L. Calley, accused of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968, was released in a complex interplay of military and civil justice. He had served 40 months of his ten-year sentence, 35 months of it rather comfortably confined to his own living quarters...
...from Boston into Kendall Square are the new office buildings and the well-manicured shrubs on the traffic circle spelling "Welcome to Cambridge." Immediately behind this facade, however, are a few lonely old buildings and acres of barren, weed-filled ground that have been the object of a broiling ten-year controversy which still has no end in sight...