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...Ridge or Los Alamos, where one man in six has a Ph.D., and out of the faculty communities of the great universities, where all the men and many of the women have advanced degrees." In the common - or uncommon-schools of such centers, says Platt, "whole classes of 130s and 140s may be seen, from kindergarten through high school." Among the results: a 13-year-old studying atomic physics seriously, an eleven-year-old taking college courses, an eight-year-old doing graduate work in mathematics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Genius Explosion | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...find. As his force grew, so did the costs: up to $1,000,000 a day. Involved are some 1,700 airmen, 6,600 sailors, 600 soldiers, 100 marines, 1,000 civilian technicians, 1,800 civilian construction workers. Starbird's air armada includes highflying U-2s, workhorse C-130s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: For Survival's Sake | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...planes, the Air Force will boost its airlift capability by 25%, will be able to fly two divisions to Europe in about two weeks. Looking ahead, the Air Force will buy more Lockheed C-130 transports, order additional machine tools so that production of the turboprop, 360-m.p.h. C-130s can be quickly speeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FOR FREEDOM | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...move forward from the Philippines' Clark Air Force Base and begin flying its sweeps from five Thai fields in F-100s on only twelve hours' notice. The Thirteenth has supplies already packed and labeled in order of loading priority-ready for freighting on C-124s and C-130s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAOS: BACKGROUND FOR BATTLE | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...mount its defense of Southeast Asia. At the big naval base at Subic Bay and at Clark Field, supplies predestined for Southeast Asian forward bases are already packed and labeled, loaded aboard the trucks that will roll them into the yawning mouths of C-124s and C-130s if the whistle blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Mr. Pacific | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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