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...earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still hangs heavy over the Soviet head, derived from the ring of bomber bases. We know nothing to suggest that Sputnik or anything like it can stop such potential destruction," said a British foreign-policymaker...
...with NBC's color mobile unit in the street outside. Within the curbstone control room, nine shirtsleeved men were wedged into a maze of apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front of him and to his left stood screens flashing four different views...
...HUSTLER BOMBER has performed so well in test flights that Air Force will speed up production of the four-jet plane that may replace Boeing's B-52. Air Force has 13 delta-wing, supersonic Hustlers on order from Convair, is about to sign contract for another 17, has approved plan to buy still more planes. Hustler's steep price (more than $10 million) will come down to $5,000,000 when full production starts...
...apparent, therefore, that if Secretary Dulles is to abandon his massive retaliation bluff in favor of a policy of tactical nuclear weapons for smaller wars, he must arrange with the Defense Department for the improvement of transportation facilities. While this might entail curtailment of Wilson's precious missile and bomber programs, it seems the only realistic step to take...
...Alastair Sim is exactly the thing as the genial assassin. His simultaneously prunelike, condescending, and Machiavellian face and manner weave much distinguished nonsense in and out of the philosophic bomber's career--a career whose explosive beginning has included an overbearing headmaster, an overstuffed businessman, and an oversmug dictator. All were neatly vaporized before the war, during which the bomber quit his activities temporarily because killing dropped from an art to an occupation. When we meet him now, he is back in practice; his prey is Sir Gregory Upshott, an international water-muddier. Sim stalks him intently and wittily, particularly...