Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard breastroke, the Crimson's two top swimmers, Doug McCartney and Jim Stanley, finished one-two, but barely an arm's length ahead of Cornell's Dave Stiller. Had the varsity lost this race, another meet would have hinged on the final freestyle relay...
Diversified Arsenal. But it was Chief Witness McElroy who dropped the week's bombshell. Only days after insisting that there was no missile gap, he told the Senators that in the early 1960s the U.S.S.R. will be ahead of the U.S. in operational ICBMs by a substantial margin, perhaps...
...soon-to-come secondary force of offensive missiles, the U.S. can already, in the blunt words of a high Pentagon official, "destroy everything." The problem is not to increase that overwhelming destructive power ("overkill" in Pentagonese), but to keep modernizing the means of delivery so as to stay ahead of Soviet defense capabilities. As newer means of delivering nuclear punch are "phased in"-so runs Administration thinking-older means can be "phased out." Total destructive power will remain on a "plateau...
...slowly. But it would be exceedingly wasteful to phase in too heavily the newer weapons that will soon be obsolete. The art of modern defense planning, combining security with fiscal responsibility, is to phase in and out at the right time, neither too late nor too soon. Looking ahead to the mid-1960s, when Minuteman and Polaris will account for most of the U.S.'s deterrent-retaliatory power, Administration planners are convinced that it would be wildly wasteful to build in the meantime a huge force of obsolescence-doomed Atlases and Titans to replace SAC bombers. So the Administration...
...Work . . . rereading . . . have to keep ahead," apologized Lucius uneasily as his eyes, unused to the bright light outdoors, watered gently behind their unbreakables...