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...billion defense budget. Last week's speedup in offensive weapons stays within that limit. The money for it, and an extra $99 million to boot, will come from scrubbing two non-missile nuclear subs-designed mostly for antisubmarine warfare-and by slashing into programs for the BOMARC anti-bomber missile and its SAGE electronics net (TIME, April...
Principal victims of the proposal (still to be approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff) are the Boeing-built Bomarc ground-to-air missile and its bomber-spotting SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net. Four weeks ago, the new 400-mile Bomarc B failed for the seventh time in seven test flights. The test bugs and other difficulties, White testified, delayed the whole production schedule so that the last of the whole 1,000-missile anti-bomber system would not be in place until 1964, when the threat of Soviet bombers would be long since displaced...
...Canada's Liberal and CCF (socialist) Opposition parties gleefully assaulted the Bomarc as a dying bird. In the process they winged Tory plans to rely on two Canadian Bomarc bases and nine aging squadrons of CF-100 interceptors as the country's only home defense against the bomber threat...
Last week the Commons' rowdiest squall yet burst over Bomarc when word came from Washington that the U.S. Air Force, worried that Bomarc's test failures would delay its operational status until too near the end of the diminishing bomber era, proposed a sweeping switch in spending to other defensive hardware (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the past, Diefenbaker had properly insisted that all Bomarc's failures were minor "nickel-and-dime" malfunctions, and pointed out that the U.S. was spending $500 million on it this year, while Canada had committed only $15 million for work...
...little, beetle-backed Porsche looked like an upstart kid tagging along after the big boys last week as the 6$-car field roared away in the tenth annual twelve-hour endurance race over the runways of an old bomber base outside of Scoring, Fla. Strong favorites were the flashy Ferraris, and the new, deep-throated Maserati that was driven in relays by the crack team of California's Dan Gurney and Britain's redoubtable Stirling Moss...