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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a fighter-bomber group in Munich for four years, earned an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another future Mercury spaceman, Gus Grissom. The two crashed a T-33 trainer off the end of a runway at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base...
...Communism was won not by the conquest of space or the big bomb but by the rapid-fire rifle, armed helicopter, the knife and the strangling wire. The U.S.. at least, is betting so heavily on that possibility that guerrilla warfare training has become the nation's fastest-expanding field of military activity...
...fastest-growing activities in U.S. guerrilla programs is the use of military units to take on civic action projects in underdeveloped nations. The theory is that guerrillas can operate successfully only when the civilians are in sympathy with them. To win loyalty from native populations and make guerrilla warfare less likely, Air Commandos and Special Forces help truck drinking water into slum areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, fly medical teams into rural Bolivia, build roads and schools in the Dominican Republic. Most such projects are in Latin America...
Enzo Ferrari is an Italian automotive genius who worships power and precision and regularly rolls the world's finest and fastest racing cars out of his factory at Maranello. Henry Ford II is a sales-conscious U.S. automotive chief whose company has lately re-emphasized speed and competitive racing as one way to catch up with front-running General Motors. What could be more natural than for the two to get together? They plan to. Ferrari, which produced about 500 cars last year, and Ford, which produced 3,400,000, will become partners once mutual discussions that have been...
...million in 1962. The company took its name from Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull, whose patents it acquired to make its first punch-card machine; it is now controlled by the Callies family (paper mills). It turned out a tabulator that was for years the fastest on the market, brought out the first computer to use compact germanium diodes as well as tubes and developed a Gamma 60 computer so electronically marvelous that it can handle scores of totally unrelated problems at once...