Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already, the Navy is at work on a weapons system that mates the solid-fuel intermediate-range Polaris to the nuclear submarine (TIME, March 3). Now, with his decision to move ahead into the research and development phase of Minuteman, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, only 20 weeks in office, is driving for a second-generation ring around the U.S.S.R. designed to deter war and to support U.S. diplomacy through the mid-and late-1960s. Target date for the first 50 to 60 Minuteman missiles on the defense line: July...
...million next year, to get Minuteman development under way right now and the system itself operational by July 1962. Flash estimate cost of 4,000 Minuteman missiles: $3½ billion. McElroy's decision, taken after consultation with his advisory panel, was to order the Air Force to go ahead-and to brace himself for the ruling that may ultimately have to be made between the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman...
...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...
...Labor, the split in the party's ranks boded ill just at a time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...
...score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have been right when he noted that his opera was 50 years ahead of its time. But it also introduces listeners to a work of raw, flogging emotional power...