Word: missilemen
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...overhead," said an Army officer. New Mexico's Democratic Governor Jack Campbell went even farther. Living in an area with supersonic missiles whizzing overhead, he claimed, would be less risky than driving on most highways. The assurances were part of a year-long "education" program mounted by U.S. missilemen in Utah and New Mexico to pave the way for the first prolonged series of missile shots over populated areas...
...forms of insurance, accepting risks that no other insurer would dare, and keeping a wet finger in the shifting winds of world business, politics and science. It recently insured the on-time opening of the New York World's Fair next April. In February, Canada's missilemen scrubbed a scheduled launch just before countdown until liability coverage could be placed with Lloyd's - the only in surer that would touch it. "But we exercise our ruthlessness and choose only those risks we feel are insurable," says one Lloyd's underwriter. World War II was partly insurable...
...Force is represented by a cigar-chomping general who chews out his missilemen every hour on the hour ("I want no scrubs, no bugs, no red lights and no excuses!") and LeMay or LeMay not be recognizable. The astronauts are represented by a group of clean-cut, squarejawed, blue-eyed young men in the prime of life and the pink of condition...
Confidence surged last week through the U.S. missile program, which suddenly had a new hero: the Titan II, a radically new missile that moves the U.S. a giant step forward in space and nuclear effectiveness. Resigned to a series of test failures before they get a success, U.S. missilemen were jubilant when the giant Titan II climbed off its pad at Cape Canaveral on the very first try, lit its second stage exactly on schedule and flew a flawless course to the target 5,000 miles away. No big liquid-fuel rocket has ever scored such an immediate triumph...
...directional control, a small amount of freon gas is shot into the side of the hot exhaust stream, deflecting it just as if the nozzle had been turned. The system is light, and since it is not exposed to high heat or pressure, it is potentially trouble-free. Many missilemen are confident that solid-propellant rockets, already an important U.S. specialty, will be even more valuable when brief blasts of freon are used to twitch their fiery tails...