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...upgrading: effective March 2, it will close down its disciplinary barracks for military prisoners at New Cumberland, Pa. After that, owing to a sharp decline in courts-martial (to a monthly rate of 18.2 per 100,000 soldiers from 54.1 in 1956), only two prisons (Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and Lompoc, Calif.) will operate, where two years ago five were needed...
...mushrooming of the West Coast missile complex has brought a combination bonanza and headache to the nearby town of Lompoc, once noted for its peaceful setting amid acres of seed farms. Population has jumped from 7,000 to 9,000 in two years, school enrollment has all but doubled, land values have gone from $2,000 to $8,000 an acre. But even though its streets are jammed with airmen, construction workers and even visiting R.A.F. trainees, Lompoc, remembering the fabulous buildups at Camp Cooke during past wars-and the abrupt shutdowns that followed-is alone in the world...
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...
Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif...
...Lompoc, Calif...