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...lead over the Russians in ICBMs, which can land the weapons on any chosen target. 3) The superior U.S. fleet of intercontinental bombers is equipped with enough larger bombs to wipe out Soviet cities many times over. One possible disadvantage: by not being able to test in the atmosphere, the U.S. may fail to find out enough about the effects which the Red superbombs might have on U.S. defenses, such as blurring radar and knocking out delicate electronic ground-control mechanisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE MILITARY & SCIENTIFIC RISKS | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...time for a victory kiss before his competitors were hollering foul. "Don't use my name," said one, "because they'd never let me come back here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Rhubarb at Indy | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...than most other U.S. communities-it probably has less, thanks to uncrowded living conditions and abundant sea breezes-but the makeup of its population is a good cross section of the nation. And it has plenty of what Dr. Kandle calls the "win-it-now spirit," determination to wipe out old-fashioned TB completely before a new super strain of drug-defying bacilli can emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: New War Against TB | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Welsh mother always said that with problem boys up to the age of 50, you either wipe their noses or whack their backsides. Would suggest the latter, with a No. 6 shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Anxious to wipe out the memory of those first 45 minutes, the Crimson out-hustled, out-shot, and out-scored the Engineer ten in the closing minutes. Shooting from the left side of the nets, sophomore midfielder Bruce Caputo scored his first varsity goal at 11:07. Lou Williams added the varsity's ninth on a solo dash that covered half the field. It was the big Junior's third tally and his sixth of the season...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Crimson Ten Tops Tech In Final Period Surge | 4/11/1963 | See Source »

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