Word: nikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ICBM, each of which produces an estimated 250,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. some 20,000 Ibs. for the biggest conventional jet), also has contracts for a series of smaller engines ranging from the Navy's 1,500-mile submarine-launched Polaris missile to the Army's Nike Ajax antiaircraft rocket...
...have particularly wanted to impress was President Ernesto de la Guardia of Panama, currently pondering a U.S. request for Nike antiaircraft missile sites in his country. So far he has asked for more concessions (primarily, a greatly increased share of Canal receipts) than the U.S. is willing to pay. De la Guardia beamed at the smooth-running exercises last week and assured a press conference that continued U.S. operation of the Canal was "not even an issue here." But he said nothing about lowering his price on the Nike bases...
...work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, helping to explore new frontiers in electronics. When World War II began, he was put in charge of work on the first crude airborne fire-control systems, later headed an Army Ordnance study that led to the development of the first Nike guided missile. By 1946 Wooldridge was chief of Bell's physical electronics department. Yet life in an ivory tower began to chafe. Says Wooldridge: "I began to realize that I was not cut out to be a scholar. I was much more interested in work that would lead...
...Revealed by way of a NATO Council announcement in Paris that the U.S. would provide some of its NATO allies with three types of missiles in fiscal 1957, among them the ground-to-ground Honest John and Matador, the ground-to-air Nike. Said General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe: although U.S. law forbids the delivery of weapons with nuclear warheads, the NATO forces should get training in both "conventional" and nuclear missilery...
...Emergencies Only. It was on that basic principle that the President last week spoke up for his aid-to-education program. At the National Education Association's centennial celebration banquet in Washington, he made his most eloquent plea: "Our schools are more important than our Nike batteries, more necessary than our radar warning nets, and more powerful even than the energy of the atom." To foster that power he asked "federal help to correct an emergency situation." And he meant emergency. "After these new schools are built," he said, "after the bricks are laid and the mortar...