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Under a shroud as concealing as the wraps around an Atlas missile last week was the U.S. budget for the fiscal year 1959 (beginning next July 1). But like a big missile's cover, the shroud could scarcely conceal the gigantic bulk record peacetime $73.5 billion to $74 billion. Even a few of the budget's major components were becoming noticeable. Items...
...sheer bulk (1,266 pp.), Some Came Running begs for superlatives and earns at least one-it is the biggest literary sleeping pill (2 Ibs. 11 oz.) of the season, a title that few believed could be wrested from Atlas Shrugged...
...senator said Schriever added that the Thor and the Atlas development programs could not be accelerated but indicated that the Titan program could and should be stepped...
...Bernard A. Schriever, director of the ballistic missiles program for the Air Force, was quoted by Johnson as saying that both the Thor and Atlas missiles are being supported at an adequate rate in the development stage "but that production schedules could and should be accelerated...
...time when the U.S. must have the power of instant retaliation, the weakness of the U.S.'s growing family of liquid oxygen ("lox") -and-kerosene-fueled missiles is that they cannot retaliate instantly. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test-ICBM Atlas: a minimum 15 minutes after an hour-long countdown. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test IRBM Thor, even using a promising but not fully tested method of "force-feeding": eight minutes. The U.S.'s lox missiles could conceivably be knocked out by the enemy before they could be fueled...