Word: wells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall balance, the U.S. is still well ahead of the U.S.S.R. in its ability to deliver strategic weapons (see chart). American nuclear-missile submarines and H-bombers vastly outnumber their Soviet counterparts. To be sure, the larger average size of Soviet warheads gives the U.S.S.R. an enormous lead in deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe...
...statements. The Administration views Agnew as a valuable weapon in its continuing efforts to keep the South safe from George Wallace. Nixon's own speeches, of course, are muted in comparison with Agnew's, and if the contrast makes the President appear the cool-headed moderate-well, that's political imagery. Every Administration needs a large target to draw fire away from the boss...
...President Georges Pompidou, Rocard's election may even prove a blessing. Four former Gaullist Ministers have won by-elections in recent weeks and will be around to complain whenever Pompidou proposes any changes in the general's policies. Had Couve gained a seat in Parliament as well, he undoubtedly would have assumed leadership of De Gaulle's loyalist wing and shaped it into a strong opposition force...
...They accomplish this in part by appointing fellow members to key government and commercial posts. Opus Dei adherents are known to control almost all of Spain's banking and a large share of its communications media. "They have the frying pan by the handle and the handle as well," runs a Spanish expression, meaning that members have both power and the will...
...block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other letters indicates certain gaps in Jackie's well-known attention to detail: "His shoe size is 10 C. So perhaps you will know what size socks to give...