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...strategic bases overseas has waned in the last couple of years, and will continue to diminish in the years ahead. Polaris missile submarines have given the U.S. a mighty strategic wallop that is independent of fixed bases overseas. The U.S.'s growing force of operational ICBMs - Atlas, Titan and, before long, Minuteman - is being stationed entirely within the U.S. But as long as Communism seeks world domination, the U.S. will continue to need military installations abroad. The current roster...
...world. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. now contracts on a global scale, and more often than not its gross annual volume heads the international list of contractors. Among other things, Kiewit has built the Air Force's base in Thule, Greenland, a giant radio telescope in West Virginia, a Titan missile base in California, Minuteman bases in North and South Dakota, a $1.2 billion AEC gaseous diffusion uranium processing plant in Ohio...
Died. Stanley Burnet Resor, 83, titan of U.S. advertising who made J. Walter Thompson Co. into the world's biggest ($370 million annual billings) and most sedate ad agency as its president from 1916 to 1955 and board chairman from 1955 to 1961; of bleeding peptic ulcer; in Manhattan. An aloof man of utmost rectitude, Resor opened Thompson's Cincinnati office in 1980s and eight years later bought the firm from its namesake; shunning the flashy sell, his agency turned out solid, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford and Eastman Kodak, thrived on scientific surveys...
...title in 1707 and was, according to one contemporary account, "a gentleman of very good sense, a bold orator, and zealous assertor of the liberty of the people.'' An example of his very good sense was his purchase of Rembrandt drawings in a day when that titan was temporarily out of fashion...
...economy may be sluggish, but not in Denver, where the influx of tourists and Titan missile contracts has helped to boost the value of new construction by 90% this year. The sun also shines on Hawaii, where tourism is up 19%. In Nevada, personal income is running 13% higher than last year's levels. The gaps in the New England economy, left by the wholesale departure of the textile industry, are being filled by electronics. Personal income in the area is up almost 7% from a year...