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...Human history," wrote H. G. Wells, "becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." The race is vividly symbolized in 15 buried capsules, scattered below the prairies of western South Dakota and manned by pairs of launch control officers for Minuteman intercontinental missiles...
Heavy Pressures. No correspondence school, Minuteman U. has 132 officer-students and a faculty of Ohio State professors who volunteer to spend three to six months at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, working under Resident Director Robert E. Hastings, 35, an Ohio State assistant professor and former Air Force ground crew chief. No diploma mill, it offers the same courses and requires the same standards from servicemen as from the civilians back in Ohio. The chief difference is the academic schedule, which has to fit the students' erratic hours. The library at Minuteman U. is open day and night...
...four or five Polaris submarines Britain is building with U.S. assistance; and even some mixed manning, but-hopefully-not on surface vessels, "the least desirable" solution. Wilson suggested that the U.S. add a like number of its own submarines. He would also like to include some U.S.-based intercontinental Minuteman missiles and West Germany-based Pershing short-range missiles, both to be mix-manned. German influence would be much less than in the original MLF, a welcome feature to the anti-German left wing. The whole setup would be commanded by a vague "single authority," in which all member nations...
...relatively new and the quite old. An Air Force photographic mission on Lookout Mountain at Los Angeles will be deactivated. Thirteen sites that had been specially constructed to launch early-model Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles, now obsolete and replaced by new Titans plus the solid-fuel Minuteman and Polaris rockets, will be wiped out. Sixteen radar stations that are antiquated in their equipment and cannot feasibly be worked into the integrated, highly sophisticated early-warning system upon which the U.S. and Canada are spending, and will continue to spend, many millions of dollars, are to be closed down...
They destroyed the biggest with a saw and axe Felling the trees and raising the tax But they didn't hear the clack, clack, clacks As the minuteman ran to the window, window, window...