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...Army's Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile, a weapons system that would cost a record $13.5 billion to become effectively operational, drags along on $300 million year-to-year handouts. Promoted by Army as a solution to the near-impossible anti-missile defense role, Nike-Zeus gets neither the funds necessary for speedup nor the kill order recommended by its critics. One factor: the Pentagon, seldom free to make decisions that are purely military, fears the panic and congressional uproar that would be set off by admission that the U.S. owns no hopeful anti-missile missile...
...announced acceptance of 20 Merit and five G.M. Scholarship recipients. Though the drop from last year's 40 Merit winners is more than proportional to the decline in number of awards, Mrs. Constance B. Pratt, Director of Radcliffe Admissions, explained that this can be explained by usual year-to-year fluctuations. She believes that Radcliffe next year will still have a greater number of Merit winners than any other women's college in the country...
Arriving in Geneva last summer for a conference hopefully leading to a nuclear test ban, U.S. delegates began laying out a sweeping proposal. The West would agree to an indefinite year-to-year suspension of all nuclear tests provided that the Russians would agree to a reasonable control system under which international teams of inspectors could check all suspicious nuclear-sized blasts...
...consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show a 6% increase over last year. Of twelve Federal Reserve Districts reporting, only one of them, Minneapolis, failed to gain. ¶ Freight carloadings rose 5.8% last week for the biggest year-to-year improvement since August...
...reason the merger ardor may be cooling slightly is simply that business is getting better. Late in December rail car-loadings hit 431,938 cars, topped the year-ago level for the first time in 16 months, although the corresponding week a year ago was particularly depressed by bad weather. Fortnight ago, loadings climbed to 467,699 cars, lagged only 1% below the same week in 1958. Railmen think the year-to-year gap has now been closed, expect carloadings to keep climbing above those of 1958 as the tempo of U.S. business picks...