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...Secretary of Agriculture, North Dakota's Senator Milton Young, "a Republican in whom farmers have confidence...
...retired Turkish air force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds in Ulus Square below. Never in the history of flying has there been such death on the ground from an airborne accident...
...people in the two planes-14, including five American passengers, aboard the Viscount and a crew of three on the Dakota-were killed...
Fast & Simple. Minuteman is the weapons system that, with the Navy's Polaris submarines, is making the so-called "missile gap" a real missile gap-favoring the West. Within a year, Montana will have 150 Minutemen in place. Another 650 have been authorized for South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri and Wyoming. Minutemen will roll like cigars off production lines until some 1,500 are deployed, far outnumbering the U.S.'s programmed 126 Atlas missiles and 108 Titans...
Prophetic Number. A college professor's son, born in North Dakota and raised in California, Bell has always been smart. Once, when he brought home his inevitable straight-A report card, his mother remarked: "It doesn't mean a thing. You were born that way." Bell got an M.A. in economics at Harvard in 1941,tutored there for a year, then went to Washington as a Budget Bureau analyst. After wartime service as a Marine intelligence officer, he returned to the Budget Bureau, moved on to become a White House assistant and one of Truman...