Word: bunker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been eased for him, he admits, by trends that began during the Eisenhower Administration-increased U.S. concern for the unaligned Afro-Asian nations, the view that free, non-Communist countries should qualify for aid without having to join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time, is now remembered as having tried too hard to woo the Indians. Galbraith has a wider field of effectiveness and is closer to Nehru than either of his immediate...
Each Atlas missile requires a five-man operating crew. But a three-man crew, working from a concrete bunker 60 ft. below the surface, can fire up to ten Minutemen. Such savings make the Minuteman the nation's cheapest intercontinental missile by far. At an estimated $3,000,000 per missile (counting costs of installation and ground equipment), the Minuteman costs less than half as much as the Navy's Polaris, a solid-fueled, second-generation missile that can be fired by a submarine from beneath the sea's surface. Originally, the Air Force planned to load...
...Israel audience in Long Beach, Calif., by proclaiming that the very thought of atomic weapons in German hands "terrifies me. Eighty per cent of West Germany's officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler's old bunker is behind the Communist wall in East Berlin...
...Robot Commando will fire rockets by voice command. War toys, too, are more realistic than ever. There are aircraft carriers that catapult planes from their decks, tanks that advance relentlessly until a well-aimed stone hits a vulnerable spot. One Civil War set comes with a firing mortar, exploding bunker and battle sound-effects record...
...Coming Shake-Out. "Mr. Khrushchev has hitherto made the market for the aerospace business," says Martin Co.'s Chairman George Bunker, "but now it is here to stay." Even if the cold war were to end next week, the U.S. would almost surely find itself committed to expanding its exploration of space...