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...what seemed like a final, fiery protest against the death sentence pronounced on it by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a 40-ft. Skybolt missile flashed away from its B-52 bomber and down the Atlantic Missile Range in a flight computed to be 991 miles long.* Jubilant Air Force officers pronounced the test "a success." But at the Pentagon, Skybolt's critics dourly contended that the missile was 100 miles off target, said the test would not save Skybolt. Declared one: "It was just rigor mortis setting...
...final U.S. decision to scrap the Skybolt missile project (TIME, Dec. 21). The U.S. had promised to supply Britain with at least 100 Skybolts, and the British, with no long-range missile capability of their own, had built many of their defense plans around the bomber-launched weapon...
Skybolt is a 40-ft.. two-stage, solid-fuel weapon designed to ride under a bomber's wing, then streak off on its own with a nuclear warhead aimed at targets up to 1,000 miles away. So far, the U.S. has spent or committed $657 million to develop Skybolt for use with the Strategic Air Command's B-52 bomber. And Britain has spent $25 million to adapt its otherwise obsolescent Vulcan II bomber to Skybolt...
...these toys fail to please, nationwide big sellers also include Douglas Army A-24 Attack Bomber, 155M Long Tom Field Cannon, Cape Canaveral Play Set, 5' long Basooka Rocket Gun, Electronic Rifle Range with Motorized Moving Target, Sonar Subhunt with a radar screen so you can "search out and destroy your enemy," and Astroscope, that "Sends Up Satellites" (only for children over...
...France's rightful place beside the U.S. and Britain in directing Western policy. Its private deterrent is an expensive luxury for France-$300 million a year-and will become costlier still. For its money, France next year will have an operational force of 50 short-range Mirage IV bombers, each carrying two relatively low-yield atom bombs. Snickering military experts point out that this will be equal to only one U.S. bomber wing. For Gallic egos, this does not matter. More important, it will no doubt increase France's influence. Already, its imminent reality has persuaded...