Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's key line: "The reason we have very great and expensive intelligence forces is to keep us informed as well as they possibly...
...Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course, etc. into computers...
BMEWS, locked into existing U.S. radar chains, including the $600 million DEW line across North Canada-Alaska, will instantaneously feed its data on the incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental...
Pack the Meeting. What the "four heads" might agree on was the subject of lively fears, but not much optimism. President Eisenhower, after a first reading of the latest Soviet note, hazarded that there might be some "lessening of the rigidity" of the Kremlin's line...
...going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha, and the first people I'm going to pay back are those little old widows-yessiree, I'm going to call them right up to the head of the line." Cage's wife, who wears mink despite the heat, is staying by her hard-working husband's side...