Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard by a strip of wild, windblown Pacific shore near Lompoc, Calif., construction workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week were digging a 15-story hole in the ground. Within weeks, the deep cylindrical pit will be paved with concrete so thick that months must pass before it cures. Then the U.S. Air Force will slide a 90-ft., 117-ton monster into its perpendicular den and seal it with heavy concrete doors against the megaton shocks of man-made thermonuclear quakes. The monster is the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapon in Air Force history...
...such, Titan presages the day when all long-range missiles will lurk beneath the earth, invisible and well-nigh invulnerable to enemy attack. The sunken silo at Vandenberg is only one part of a subterranean complex under construction as Titan's first "hard base." Adjoining the missile tank are other sunken cylinders (see diagram), housing air-conditioning and hydraulic equipment, a power station, liquid oxygen and fuel tanks, and a command control center for the launch crew. Tunnels connect the widely dispersed elements, but after the alert, only the control center will be occupied. Remotely controlled, the monster, fueled...
...Titan was air-shipped to Cape Canaveral in August for components testing. A test launch, using another Titan, has been tentatively scheduled for late next month. The Air Force has firmly programed four Titan squadrons of nine birds each, will start building the first of the four new Titan hard bases soon after the first of the year. Base construction near existing Air Force installations: $50 million per squadron. Titan development costs : $1 billion to date. Target date for an operational Titan...
...F.L.N.'s tough young masters, who still suspected him of pro-French loyalty, put him through an apprentice course in clandestine operations, sent him scurrying about Europe, the Middle East and South America as a spokesman for the cause. This was hard work for sleep-loving Ferhat Abbas, who likes to get to bed before 9 every night, already wonders how he will hold his head up at evening functions if he ever becomes head of a genuine Algerian state. Slow as he had been to join the rebellion, Abbas still possessed an asset of incalculable value...
...should have caused an uproar. But Married Love was published in 1918. Though it soon became a runaway bestseller in Britain, it remained banned in the U.S, as obscene until 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey cleared it. (He later did the same for James Joyce's Ulysses.) Hard on the heels of Married Love, red-haired Author Stopes turned out Wise Parenthood. The idea of using artificial contraceptives to space pregnancies was then as repugnant to the Church of England as to the Church of Rome: in both, clerics denounced the woman and her works...