Word: todays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads too thin over too many half-finished, half-good or plainly outdated programs, perpetuates costly ideas out of past wars, fails to concentrate spending upon the strict necessities of today and the future...
...branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain. In second-generation, solid-pro-pellant missiles, the Navy's submarine-launched Polaris fits the same general specifications...
...Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...
...others saw it as more than a problem of cold-war advantage. Recently Dwight Eisenhower remarked: "I believe that the problem of the underdeveloped nations is more lasting, more important for Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There are 1,700,000,000 people that today are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. Now they are not going to remain quiescent. They are just going to have an explosion if we don't help...
...Today, two-thirds of the world's population lives in areas that produce only one-third of the world's food. In parts of Algeria in the weeks just before harvest, peasants and their families subsist on acorn biscuits or boiled juniper berries. In Latin America, per capita agricultural production is nearly 6% lower than it was before World War II, and in Asia it is 10% lower...