Word: colorado
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...editors hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and six, a master's. Fifteen of our editors went to Harvard, seven to Princeton and six to Yale. Five went to Columbia University and two each to the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri, the University of Colorado, New York University and Clark University. For the rest, the alumni allegiance is to scores of other large and small colleges both in the U.S. and abroad. (Three did graduate work at Oxford, the Sorbonne, and the London School of Economics...
America's defenses against this nightmarish-but very real-possibility are centered in the pleasant resort town of Colorado Springs. There, in a two-story blockhouse, grey and windowless, is a huge Plexiglas map on which the position of any strange plane sighted anywhere over North America is immediately plotted. Within two minutes, two jet interceptors scramble skyward with orders to identify the unknown aircraft-or shoot it down...
Fifteen Seconds to Alaska. Reports of every unidentified aircraft spotted over North America flash through the Air Defense network to the blockhouse in Colorado Springs, General Chidlaw's command post. On the great Plexiglas map, from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere...
...desk are three phones, colored red, white and black, for direct lines to his units, SAC headquarters and the Pentagon. His command is one of the Bell System's biggest customers (phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures...
POWER-POLICY CHANGE by the Administration will be reflected in the new budget now being prepared. For the first time it will ask for a sizable chunk of money to finance new water projects. Among them: an irrigation plan for the upper Colorado River, and the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to bring water by tunnel from the Colorado River under the continental divide...