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...Navy. While the Army and Air Force were fighting, the Navy sailed serenely along, kept out of trouble. The Wilson memo gave the Navy a go-ahead for all ship-based missile development (i.e., everything except the intercontinental ballistic missile), and the Navy announced that it was commissioning an experimental ship to work out the gyroscopic navigational system required for accurate firing of a 1,500-mile ballistic missile (see SCIENCE...
...Trick. Notwithstanding, Lejeune gave the go-ahead to the intelligence officers. He apparently counted on the French Cabinet's current impatience with the Sultan. After all, when the Sultan's 28-year-old son had discussed with Mollet the possibility of talking to the Algerian rebels, Mollet had agreed as long as it was done unspectacularly. Instead the Sultan had welcomed the rebel leaders to his palace, had been photographed with them and had issued a joint communique...
...chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer for the booming international copper market...
...President Eisenhower was giving the go-ahead on the release of 88,000 Ibs. of U-235 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), one atomic expert warned that there are still some major technical roadblocks in the way of "practical, low cost nuclear power." Progress from here on, said Sylvania Electric Products' Engineer Stanley B. Roboff, "will be only as fast as we can develop new and better materials for use in reactors...
...they approached the Brink's building, they looked for a signal from the lookout on the roof of a Prince Street building. He previously had arrived in a stolen Ford sedan. After receiving the go-ahead signal, seven members of the gang left the truck and walked through a playground to the Prince Street entrance of Brink's. Using the outside door key they previously had obtained, the men quickly entered and donned the masks." Big Tony Pino and his driver remained outside in the truck, with the motor idling...