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...very air and water. Many of its legislators and citizens thus see the ABM as a thief that would snatch away billions of dollars sorely needed for domestic use. The likely cost for the specific ABM program already begun is between $5 billion and $10 billion spread over several years???which is not really too immense a burden. But many are convinced that the ABM, once undertaken, is bound to grow in size and cost by geometric progression. Democratic Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a former Air Force Secretary who is generally sympathetic to the military, declared last week that...
...generation missile. Still, Peking will certainly develop its missiles with a broad general knowledge of U.S. defense concepts. "Their deployment," Bethe said recently, "will probably be determined by our ABM system. How long our ABM could keep ahead of them is open to question. It may be a few years???or months." Other specialists point out that if the Chinese really wanted to risk obliteration, ABM would not be an insuperable barrier. They could smuggle in the parts of nuclear bombs and use saboteurs rather than missiles. Either the Chinese or the Russians could attempt germ warfare if they feared...
...that he decided to jettison ambitions to become a doctor and impulsively enrolled in an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After a sketch in which he played an old man, his instructor took him aside and said, "Dusty, it may take you a long time?ten or 15 years???but you are going to have a life in the theater." Recalls Hoffman, ruefully: "He was sure right about how long it would take...
Russia's seamen?nearly all are draftees who serve for three years???nonetheless live better than many factory workers. The food is plentiful, and the crew quarters are relatively comfortable and clean. The ships have air conditioning, well-stocked libraries, TV sets for reception in ports and coastal areas and movies twice a week. Sailors organize singing and music groups, play dominoes and chess and, at every opportunity, sunbathe on deck in what...
...Glücksburg dynasty, to which Constantine belongs, was started in 1863. During a period of near-anarchy in Athens, a Greek delegation went to Denmark to beg King Christian IX to allow his son, Prince William George, to become their king. George I lasted on the throne for 50 years???until an assassin's bullet ended his reign. His son, Constantine I, had equally bad luck, was twice deposed by the politicians. Then came George II ("the unsmiling King"), who lost the throne to a republican coup in 1924, remained in exile for eleven years before returning, and went into...