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With routine briskness, a U.S. Air Force officer walked into Berlin's four-power Air Safety Center one day last fortnight, filed a flight plan for an incoming C-130 Lockheed Hercules turboprop transport plane. Altitude for the flight through the Berlin air corridor to the Communist-surrounded city...
¶ Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $755.1 million, including F-104 fighters, C-130 Hercules transports, the submarine-launched Polaris IRBM.
¶ At White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico the Army rocketed a Nike-Hercules into the sky to intercept an XQ-5 jet drone target traveling 14 miles up at more than 2,000 m.p.h. The Nike released a spotting charge near the drone that was close enough to...
¶Continued the U.S.'s own basic military buildup on Formosa itself-a buildup powerfully augmented last week by the arrival of the Army's Nike-Hercules ground-to-air atomic rockets; ¶ Persevered with the Warsaw talks, in their seventh session, between the U.S.'s Ambassador...
¶ At four sites around Taipei, engineers of the U.S.'s Vinnell Co. rushed construction of launching sites for Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. Vinnell, which normally takes a year to build a Nike site in the U.S., has undertaken a crash program to finish the sites in...