Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as H-bombs), plus about 90 supersonic B-58s. The theory of deterrence rests on the assumption that the enemy leaders will be rational, and the Administration argues confidently that Soviet leaders, faced with the prospect of getting hit by SAC, could not make a rational decision to launch a missile attack on the U.S., even with missile superiority...
...provides for starts on only three Polaris submarines (nine have been authorized by Congress). And although the U.S. is depending upon Minuteman to close the missile gap in 1963-64, the Administration is doing next to nothing to assure that when Minuteman is ready to go into mass production, launching facilities for the missiles will be ready too.* One of the high hopes for Minuteman is that it will prove feasible to launch the bird from moving cars traveling back and forth on the nation's railway system, but research into this possibility is barely getting started under...
While grappling with this legacy, Hansen has found time to launch an astonishing campaign to raise academic standards. In the two years since he took over as superintendent, Hansen's hard-hitting emphasis on basic education ("order and logic") along with classroom discipline ("firmness with love") has begun turning the "wreck" of Washington schools into a model that less beleaguered cities may envy. If in theory the nation's capital ought to be an educational showcase, Carl Hansen seems determined to make it so in reality...
Vanderbilt's donation, and a $200,000 grant from the Markle Foundation, have brought the library campaign to within $3 million of its goal. Miss Sandra Countway donated $3.5 million last year to launch the drive for the medical library...
Strategic Reach. The Soviet announcement left unsaid what kind of rockets the Kremlin intended to test. Said Tass: "Soviet scientists and engineers are now working to develop a more powerful rocket to launch heavy satellites and undertake space nights to planets." U.S.S.R. space scientist. Professor V. Dobronravov, said on Radio Moscow that the Pacific shots were preparatory to "man's flight into interplanetary space...