Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eating at Ease. The doolies near Colorado Springs are about to win a measure of relief: they will soon begin-sitting at ease during meals. The change was the latest in a series of reforms by Academy Superintendent William S. Stone. A modern major general. Stone thinks that harassment does indeed fuel the attrition rate (which averaged 27% for the academy's first three classes), but that it is not necessarily the weak sisters who quit. Says Stone: "A lot of this stuff is sophomoric...
Developing such omnivision is the job of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), headquartered in the shadow of Pike's Peak at Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
...story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
...transmitters hurl radio energy hundreds of miles from the earth; its receivers catch satellite reflections for quick triangulation and tracking. It has detected space junk as small as a 14-ft. strand of wire from an old satellite. Says Captain Orville Greynolds, a spacetrack officer in Colorado Springs: "No one could launch a space vehicle and keep it a secret. We are positive we have checked and tracked all Russian objects now in space...
...victory over Arkansas. In Pasadena's Rose Bowl, a crowd of 98,000 watched Minnesota shrug off an early U.C.L.A. field goal, romp to an easy 21-3 victory. And in Miami's rain-drenched Orange Bowl, Louisiana State's hard-rushing linemen blocked two Colorado punts, routed the outmanned Westerners 25-7. Perhaps the biggest winner of all was L.S.U. Coach Paul Dietze, who flew home to Baton Rouge after the game ready to accept a fiveyear, $100,000 contract offer from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...