Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even for the sophisticated rocket watchers of Cape Canaveral to whom the swiftest jet plane seems a little oldfashioned, the contrails of the B-52 bomber that soared high overhead last week held a special significance. Telescopes and electronic eyes on the Atlantic Missile Range traced every mile of the big ship's progress. The reason for the intense interest was obvious. Under the bomber's right wing hung a slim Skybolt missile, the newest and most promising weapon of the U.S. Air Force...
...Cape Fear (Universal-International). "You can't put a man in jail for what he might do." The hero (Gregory Peck) nods grimly. As a lawyer, he knows that the chief of police is right. But that doesn't solve his problem: a rapist (Robert Mitchum) he once caught in the act has been released from jail and has returned to North Carolina to take revenge on the lawyer and his family. How to stop...
Cuban Gutter. Of the U.S.'s three missile ranges, Cape Canaveral, Fla., makes the most headlines, with its man-in-space shots. The Army's White Sands is dimly recalled as the site of long-ago atomic tests. But White Sands and Canaveral lack what the PMR has: plenty of room...
...most important functions is to provide actual training for missile-era airmen and ground troops-something neither Cape Canaveral nor White Sands is equipped to do. Aircraft squadrons fire their air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles over the PMR's vast instrumentation almost every morning. Marine Corps antiaircraft missile battalions set up their Hawk batteries on the offshore islands of Santa Barbara Channel and fire away at the PMR-launched drones. British and Canadian Thor crews get their first actual experience in firing their missiles over the PMR-training they cannot get at home...
...hero: the Titan II, a radically new missile that moves the U.S. a giant step forward in space and nuclear effectiveness. Resigned to a series of test failures before they get a success, U.S. missilemen were jubilant when the giant Titan II climbed off its pad at Cape Canaveral on the very first try, lit its second stage exactly on schedule and flew a flawless course to the target 5,000 miles away. No big liquid-fuel rocket has ever scored such an immediate triumph...