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...supersecret conference of top U.S. military leaders at Quantico, Va. last week with a word for reporters. He had nothing much to say about clamping down on interservice rivalry, nor about the decision that he must eventually, some day, take on what ground-to-air missiles the U.S. will deploy to defend itself. Instead Secretary McElroy noted that five of the.U.S.'s Atlas "operational" intercontinental missiles had failed in consecutive test firings, announced that Atlas would be delayed for "not less than 60 days," while the Air Force and Convair try to find out what is wrong...
...speed is arrested by the friction of the air, a small parachute will come out; finally a large chute will deploy and float the man in his capsule. Slowly, he will descend at about 30 ft. per second until he is let down, almost gently, in the Gulf of Mexico. There he will be rescued by a waiting ship of the U.S. Navy and brought back-a hero...
...staunchness. Charles de Gaulle flatly declared that disengagement would be disastrous unless it involved "a zone that is as near to the Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise," snapped De Gaulle, "what a narrow strip would remain between the River Meuse and the ocean in which to deploy and use the means of the West." In Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was highly incensed by reports that Britain's idea of an armed freeze was one that would ban nuclear weapons for the West German army. "These British!" snorted Adenauer. "They should learn that they cannot lead the Continent...
...Hawskin said he will deploy his units to key extermination centers around the Square. Sharpshooters will man positions atop Lowell House, the Lampoon, and the Bat Club, providing, of course, "the Communists don't burn the place down before we get going...
...thermonuclear bombers of Strategic Air Command. The key results of Admiral Holloway's power: i) Lebanon and nearby Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...