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...Bird. Known in the Air Force as the "poor man's missile." the Minuteman is a bird of a different feather from the familiar Titan and Atlas intercontinental missiles. As "first generation" weapons, both the Titan and Atlas burn highly volatile liquid fuels that require a trouble-plagued network of pumps and pipes. Fueling and firing the Titan and Atlas is an intricate business-many experts doubt that they would ever get off the pad with just 15 minutes' warning. In contrast, the Minuteman burns a solid, rubberlike fuel developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. Once the Minuteman...
Pondering "the metamorphosis of a press secretary into a vice president of a network," ABC News Overseer James Hagerty, 52, catalogued his altered preoccupations since leaving Dwight Eisenhower's employ: "My foreign policy-establishment of peaceful coexistence with Madison Avenue. My complex of domestic problems-Huntley-Brinkley and Doug Edwards. My economy at home-cost control. And the awesome question of war and peace-Newton Minow...
...under siege-and, in a sense, it was. The air force was alerted. Naval patrol boats growled offshore, and ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against...
Died. Colonel Ulius Louis Amoss, U.S.A.F. Reserve, 67. a onetime Y.M.C.A. secretary who parlayed World War II intelligence experience into a profitable civilian career, ran what he asserted was the world's largest private spy network (7,000 agents by his count), claimed complicity in a clutch of international intrigues straight out of E. Phillips Oppenheim, including a plot to smuggle Stalin's son out of Russia; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
...difficulty in using the deuterium-fueled fusion process is that it requires temperatures as hot as those on the surface of the sun. Physicists can only sustain these by suspending the materials in a network of magnetic waves, since any other container would draw off heat too rapidly...