Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charges of brutality and profanity filled the New Haven air yesterday as the aftermath of two Yale student riots within 48 hours. President A. Whitney Griswold called a meeting for this morning to consider disciplinary action. Forty-one Yale men arrested on charges ranging from breach of peace to abusing an officer awaited trial Wednesday...
Acheson's "only visible alternative": "The Soviets must be convinced that we are genuinely determined to keep [air and ground] traffic to Berlin open, at whatever risk, rather than abandon the people of Berlin and permit the whole Western position to crumble. To that end, there is much to be done between now and the end of May-a real concerting of plans with our allies, a building up of NATO power in Europe, an increase in American troop strength and a return of British and French divisions to the continent, possibly Turkish and Italian reinforcements, and a strengthening...
Near Thule, Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...scope of BMEWS is rated by Air Force men as "something fantastic." While construction work by Army engineers goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth...
BMEWS, locked into existing U.S. radar chains, including the $600 million DEW line across North Canada-Alaska, will instantaneously feed its data on the incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental...