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...bomber, designed to fly at three times the speed of sound. In its money requests for fiscal 1961, the Air Force asked for $464 million to get started on a B70 program. The Administration slashed the request to $70 million, which will buy two militarily worthless prototype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE COMING MISSILE GAP | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...continued in a voice shaking with emotion: "All that was torture for me. But I had to tell myself that Christians in other times have experienced similar torture and have not tossed Romans 13 overboard. The turning point came for me when the business of euthanasia for so-called worthless life and the gassing of Jews became apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop & the Jews | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing worthless pictures as possible masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Found & Lost | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...pointed out that any communists desiring NDEA funds would probably disregard the oath and that for this reason it was virtually worthless. Asked if he favored Harvard's rejection of the program, he answered that he would have followed President Pusey's actions exactly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Says Schools Will Need $8 Billion Within Next 10 Years | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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