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...Strategic Air Command last week took control of a new squadron of twelve Atlas missiles at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York-bringing to 200 the total of U.S. combat-ready intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nuclear-tipped arsenal includes 126 liquid-fueled Atlases; 54 Titans, a bigger and heavier liquid-fueled missile; and 20 quick-firing, solid-fueled Minutemen. Each has a range of 6,000 miles or more, and each is zeroed in on an assigned target in the Soviet Union. The present total is at least twice the estimated strength of the Russian missile force...
Three sons of famous generals were tapped for bigger things by the Army: Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, 40. Lieut. Colonel Sam Walker, 37, son of Korean Eighth Army Commander General Walton Walker, killed in Korea, and Colonel Henry Arnold Jr., 45. whose father, the late General "Hap" Arnold, commanded U.S. air forces in World War II. Walker, now at U.N. headquarters in Korea, goes to the National War College in Washington, a hitch that is often a prelude to a general's star; Arnold, presently on duty at the Presidio in San Francisco, and Eisenhower, who has been...
Such talk did not calm the British. For one thing, they suspected that the U.S. would be just as happy if Britain continued without its own nuclear deterrent. For another, they thought the U.S. might be using the threat of killing Skybolt to pressure Britain into making a bigger contribution to NATO's conventional forces-a long-avowed U.S. aim. Finally, the British do not agree with McNamara's estimate of Skybolt and its potential. That disagreement is shared by many...
Santa Cruz could easily have been another monolith like Berkeley or U.C.L.A; it is one of three new branches of the California empire, each of them to be bigger than for example, private Stanford. What clinched the new plan was the stunning 2,000 acres of redwood forests and limestone quarries overlooking Monterey Bay, loo miles south of San Francisco Ihe university bought the land, settled loo years ago by Rancher Henry Cowell lor a rock-bottom $1,000 an acre...
SPACE will demand a bigger part of the budget than ever. Present plans call for a vast increase in space-agency funds over fiscal 1963's $3.7 billion, probably to at least $5.5 billion. The biggest amount will go for the U.S. program to reach the moon...