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Open Secret. Two years ago, NORAD had no way to locate either missiles or satellites. Now, under the prodding of General Laurence Sherman Kuter, 56, commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces from 1957 to 1959, NORAD can do both. At Thule, Greenland, two powerful beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile...
...launching such an attack, the U.S. needs a tough, reliable, intercontinental ballistic missile that can be mass produced, buried in the ground, and fired within 15 minutes of the instant that enemy rockets first flash onto the radar screens of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Alaska and Greenland. It is now convincingly clear that the Air Force has developed just such a missile: the Minuteman...
Tues., Jan. 10 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* A trackdown through Greenland's icy wastes of a vanishing breed-the unabominable musk...
Rome, the city of grandiose ruins, was "erected by parvenus," new-rich "imperial lunatics" with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse...
...Thus licensed for intervention, U.S. marines marched in and out of Caribbean capitals and customs houses to protect U.S. investments for nearly three decades. By the time of the Good Neighbor Policy, the doctrine was in bad repute. It has not been invoked since it was expanded to protect Greenland from German seizure...