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...first B-52H bomber, designed to serve as a launching platform for four long-range (1,000 miles), air-launched Skybolt missiles. The airplane itself is powered by eight new Pratt & Whitney J57 turbofan engines, has a range of 10,000 miles, will be able to launch its atom-tipped Skybolts without having to make deep, dangerous penetrations into hostile airspace. The 6-52-Skybolt weapons system will have one advantage over ground-launched rockets: it can be recalled at any time before it reaches the release point for its birds...
...five smaller branches around the state. Wilson raised salaries to attract better teachers, made Texas the first state university in the country to require entrance tests for all students. He launched a $35 million building program, aimed at scientific prestige with a new computer center and an atom smasher. He even persuaded the regents to stop spending the income from the university's $360 million endowment (second only to Harvard's) on buildings alone. Two-thirds of it is now going into new schemes for academic "excellence...
...With a small force." he says, "the Air Force has to be proficient in every respect." O'Donnell's Air Force is; yet it is still uncomfortable in its role. All its atomic capabilities are next to useless in countries like Laos. "It's like knocking an ant off a bicycle," says O'Donnell. But the Air Force notes that Red China, if it cares to ask for trouble, offers a number of atom-sized military targets...
...Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing in the Korean war was never discussed either by my headquarters or in any communication to or from Washington." Then, insisting that he re-entered "this controversial dispute . . . only to prevent a complete prevarication of history," MacArthur restated his old case against ex-Commander in Chief Truman. "Our failure...
Linus Carl Pauling, 59, Caltech's outspoken, opinionated chemist, began prying into the personality of the atom just after World War I, when the laboratories of his specialty were alive with novel and productive ideas. The coincidence was explosive. For Pauling believes that "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." He had plenty. His theory about the nature of the chemical bond, the forces that make atoms stick together, won him a Nobel Prize in 1954. "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life," says Pauling...