Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Super VC 10 has some radical innovations for a plane its size. It mounts its four engines aft on twin pods attached to the fuselage, much like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...
...obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic airpower, no follow-on bomber is under development." Power's emergency solution: Adapt the F-lll (TFX) fighter-bomber for SAC use as a medium-range strategic bomber...
Finally, Power feels that the U.S. may be making a fatal error if it should neglect the military possibilities of outer space. He charges that Washington, which "blithely joined" in a United Nations resolution banning the use of weapons in space, virtually conceded "this promising medium to Soviet trickery." Power warns that Americans "may wake up one morning" and find a number of nuclear-armed Soviet satellites "floating in stationary orbits over every part of the United States...
Pretty Polly, the first of these three medium-length tales, is that rare bird, a story that celebrates the joys of breaking taboos without ever once dishing out comeuppance griefs. Mrs. Capper's Birthday is a gentle portrait of a World War II widow who has never quite adjusted to life without "Fred." Me and the Girls is a grim little account of the last reflections of a third-rate homo sexual entertainer dying of cancer. Not the gay Coward...
...took just 65 minutes to put 1,400 marines ashore with rifles, machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers. At Danang, the brigade's other battalion came in the easy way-by air from Okinawa. Both battalions came prepared for heavy combat: they had 105-mm. howitzers, M48 medium tanks, 106-mm. recoilless rifles...