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...favoring the West. Within a year, Montana will have 150 Minutemen in place. Another 650 have been authorized for South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri and Wyoming. Minutemen will roll like cigars off production lines until some 1,500 are deployed, far outnumbering the U.S.'s programmed 126 Atlas missiles and 108 Titans...
...importance of strategic bases overseas has waned in the last couple of years, and will continue to diminish in the years ahead. Polaris missile submarines have given the U.S. a mighty strategic wallop that is independent of fixed bases overseas. The U.S.'s growing force of operational ICBMs - Atlas, Titan and, before long, Minuteman - is being stationed entirely within the U.S. But as long as Communism seeks world domination, the U.S. will continue to need military installations abroad. The current roster...
...Moreover, "fallout" seems to be shrinking as defense gear becomes increasingly esoteric. "Complexity breeds specialization-you find out everything there is to know about a progressively smaller area-and that is almost the opposite of invention," says Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Vice President Simon ("Si") Ramo, who bossed the original Atlas ICBM program...
...competition with anyone, publishers of other magazines are very helpful, and we've learned a great deal about the technical side of things in just a few months. From now on, the pieces will be shorter, and we'll use more pictures." Hopefully, such changes will nudge Atlas out of the money-losing habit that afflicts so many small-circulation magazines. For the moment, Eleanor Worley has no objection to making up Atlas' monthly losses out of her own pocketbook (though she keeps the magazine's finances a determined secret). But neither would she object...
...Johannesburg, not Mariner, that had made the big mistake. The start of the flight had been almost perfect. The Atlas booster shoved the spacecraft up to a height of 112 miles before its engines cut off and it separated from the rest of the vehicle as planned. Next, the second-stage Agena B rocket fired Mariner II into an 18,000-m.p.h. "parking" orbit. Cutting off its engine, Agena B then coasted until it reached the precise point for another firing, which nudged Mariner II toward outer space at an earth-escape velocity of 25,526 m.p.h.* Command to Jets...