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...witty, flamboyant Lloyd George had been Prime Minister for four years. As the man who had led his nation to victory in World War 1 and founded the welfare state, he enjoyed greater popular support than any other British politician in more than a century. Politically, he seemed a titan, ruling over squabbling pygmies. Yet the fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign policy had frayed the Liberals' uneasy coalition with...
Samaritani is described by some of his colleagues as "a human computer." An ex-banker who joined Immobiliare in 1933, he has been the man primarily responsible for converting the company from a land investment firm into the construction titan it now is. Washington's Watergate project is part of his latest drive to diversify Immobiliare by moving abroad. Besides Watergate, Immobiliare is now building apartment houses in Paris and Montreal, and is negotiating to build three 45-story office buildings in Montreal's Victoria Square, the heart of the city's financial district...
When the U.S. scrubbed its air-to-ground Skybolt missile, many reasons were given, but one of the most prominent was that it had flunked its early flight tests. One weakness in such reasoning has recently been demonstrated by a flurry of failures in tests of the land-based Titan and Minuteman missiles-upon which the U.S. is still depending heavily...
Three out of the last five Minuteman tests have been at least partial failures. One exploded just after launching, two others failed to achieve their scheduled flight range. In addition, the latest test of the advanced Titan II also fell short of its distance goal. Overall, the Minuteman test record is 18 successes, four partial successes, six failures. The Titan record is 45 successes, 15 partial successes, four failures. The lesson: it takes more than a few flights to judge a missile...
...advanced Titan II, not yet operational, will have a reaction time similar to the Minuteman's. Under present schedules, half of the 108 Titans will consist of new models...