Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes college humor and surrealistic props to launch a bizarre offensive against poor Mom. As a girl with a yen for Mama's boy, Barbara Harris ranges from clowning grotesquerie to candied simpering to erotic voracity, with unflawed skill...
...Tightened physical restraints to prevent unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. These range from the use of old-fashioned hand-crank generators to set off antiaircraft missiles-just to introduce another man into the launch sequence-to requirements that two officers turn keys within 2-12 seconds of each other before an ICBM can be triggered. Most important is a complex and highly secret new system of remote-control electronic locks that must be opened by responsible officers to fire even tactical Army weapons...
...officers throw a switch that opens an electronic lock on the missile flight. They call the two control officers. The two, sitting 15 ft. apart, pick up separate telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another two-man crew in another capsule sends a concurring signal. Finally, any of five control centers in each squadron can push a switch labeled "inhibit" and stop the launch...
Andrus is proud of Minuteman and of his wing: "We have the highest degree of perfection and morale ever achieved in any military organization." Yet he is fully aware of the potentiality for boredom in sending highly trained men underground to sit and wait. All launch crew members hold B.S. degrees, work toward master's in aerospace engineering while on duty. "We don't anticipate that any of these men will crawl the walls," Andrus says...
...possessions as the trustees shall see fit." Since only 154 of the 15,000 existing U.S. foundations have assets of more than $10 million, the Davis kitty is among the biggest on record, and it will grow. John D. Rockefeller, for example, put up a mere $182.6 million to launch the Rockefeller Foundation, which is now worth $615 million. Other big foundations: Hartford ($414 million), Duke ($400 million), Carnegie ($286.6 million)-all of them topped, of course, by the Ford Foundation's $2.5 billion...