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...quarterback, with plenty of time to look down field and throw, hit wide open Quartararo at the Harvard 42. The tight end put a nice move on Fuller, then ran out of the safety's attempted tackle and carried the ball all the way to the UMass one before Minuteman defensive back Dwayne Lopes made a touchdown-saving tackle. Two plays later. Allard swept into the end zone on a rollout left, and after the PAT, Harvard...
...launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
...feature is a requirement that neither side have a total of more than 2,500 warheads on its ICBMs. That is about 3,000 fewer than the Soviets are allowed under SALT II. Yet it is nearly 350 more warheads than the U.S. has on its own Minuteman and Titan ICBMs. The U.S. force of land-based warheads could expand even as the Soviet one would be required to contract. Meanwhile, there would be no restriction on bombers and cruise missiles, weapons in which the U.S. has an overwhelming advantage both numerically and technologically...
...that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle one of the state's 300 Minuteman missiles as a symbolic peacemaking gesture...
...opinion of many strategic analysts, however, Weinberger was at least hyperbolic. They maintain that only the most advanced Soviet missiles approach the targeting precision of the 550 U.S. Minuteman IIIs...