Word: belt
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Along the ancient bed of a glacial lake, U.S. 89 runs eastward out of Great Falls, Mont., and climbs into the Little Belt Mountains. There, above the once prosperous coal-mining town of Belt (pop. 757), a plain link fence encloses two acres of barren land and Russian thistle, four watchful electronic sentinels, and a few drab slabs of concrete. Beneath that concrete is buried an Air Force Minuteman missile-one of the most efficient instruments of intercontinental destruction the U.S. possesses...
...Belt site is just one of many Minuteman installations either built or abuilding. Officially declared operational for the first time this week, 20 of the three-stage, 32-ton Minutemen are now cradled in 80-ft. silos sunk in Montana's wheat and cattle country. They are armed with nuclear warheads, aimed and ready to hurl the equivalent of 500,000 tons...
...selection of sports equipment and toggery. They are now showing the famous "snow jeans" by Christian Dior of Paris and sold exclusively in Boston at the Ski Hut. Both men and women will like the smart stretch ski pants by Hauser of Paris. Men particularly appreciate the wide elastic belt which is so comfortable as well as functional on the ski slopes. The large collection of ski sweaters from Europe includes those of Montant of France, supplier of olympic teams. These V-neck, doubleknit racing sweaters worn with turtleneck jersey are very, very warm and, oh, so au courant...
Emotional Neuters. Burdick, who swung wildly, and sometimes below the belt, at American diplomats in his book The Ugly American, swings just as hard at scientists advising the Pentagon. Walter Groteschele, Fail-Safe's villain, is a caricature of a scientist, who advocates preventive war in scholarly treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger...
American explosions in other space have already severely affected radio astronomy, Liller stated. An artificial radiation band has merged with the natural Van Allen radiation belt, and forms a level of very intense radiation, some 2000 miles high. This radiation, said Liller, continually interferes with returning impulses, and makes it very difficult for astronomers to correlate dependable data...