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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million "Operation Big Slam." Into Puerto Rico's sun-soaked Ramey Air Force Base and Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, from 14 fields as far off as Hickam in Honolulu (6,000 miles), some 250 MATS planes began lifting 20,530 troops and 11,150 tons of gear. Last week Ramey roared with a take-off or landing every 3¼ minutes (Berlin airlift average: one every three minutes). Up to 101 planes were in the air at a time, but not more than eight to ten transports rested on Ramey's tarmac because of the speed with which...
...foot, 24-ton second stage is the largest vehicle known to have been separated and fired on the edge of space.*It plunked into the Atlantic 2,000 miles downrange, might have stretched three times that far had it not been weighed down with so much testing gear. The milestone shot cheered Titan's hard-pressed assembler, Martin Co. (TIME, Jan. 4), and Pentagon missilemen, who have bet heavily ($850 million in the fiscal 1961 budget alone) that highly touted Titan will go on the line next year as a more powerful and flexible ICBM than the 14-stage...
...Force Discoverer satellite failed to orbit (because malfunctioning ground gear cut off its in-flight power 15 seconds too soon). Discoverer's record in nine tries: six orbits, three misses (all due to ground equipment lapses). ¶The Saturn cluster engine, with an awesome 1,500,000 pounds of thrust, was earmarked for another $90 million in 1961 budget cash, lifting it to a fat $230 million for the year. The Saturn will shake through its first ground tests at Huntsville, Ala. in April, when Rocketeer Wernher von Braun will switch on two of its engines; later tests will...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...
...oceanographers have also spotted new places to drag for bottom fish such as cod and halibut. To find them, a survey ship cruises in likely places until it is in water of the right depth (no more than 750 ft.). Then its scientists study the bottom with electronic sounding gear, test the currents with meters. If the bottom is rocky or too steep, it will damage the fishermen's dragging apparatus. If a fast current flows near the bottom, fish will be scarce. A fast current at higher levels may make dragging difficult. In the past few years, Japanese...