Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serious Weaknesses. McNamara observed -before the Kwajalein test that it would be conducted under "controlled conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced...
...came back home and entered New York University as a freshman. He no sooner had his degree (electrical engineering) than the Korean war broke out. He had kept up his flying in the Air Force Reserve, and in 1951 was recalled to active duty. Though White saw no combat in Korea, he decided to stay in the Air Force. His cool, precise flying won him two years of experimental-test-pilot training. Since 1955. White has checked out four hot jet fighters: the F-86K. F-89H. F-1O2 and F-105B. The 105 nearly...
...built a combined school and medical clinic to serve Barsha and other villages (the building is still empty for lack of a technical staff). A circuit-riding doctor pays a once-a-week call at Barsha, and Cairo surprised the villagers last year by passing out free insecticides to combat the cotton-worm blight and, when this failed, paid a $10-per-acre subsidy to those who suffered complete loss. Under Egypt's land reform program, only three Barsha families have received five acres each. Throughout Egypt, 1,650,000 acres so far have been seized from...
Jungle Action. Meanwhile, the bitter, dirty guerrilla struggle continues. Last week, after accompanying a combat patrol, TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr described a typical action of the ugly little war in the jungle...
...Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight...