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Hard-rock miners have drilled a cavern 5,000 ft. under Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs, but three more years will pass before the underground headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), nerve center and central switchboard for continental air raid warnings, will move in. Even then, in many a community the communication lines to NORAD may remain perilously thin. In Miami, the main CONELRAD station is not equipped as a fallout shelter, and its link to the city's civil defense control center is an exposed land wire...
...North American skies were far from empty. Aloft were 1,800 NORAD fighter planes, from long-ranging F-101s to speedy new F-106s on some 6,000 intercept sorties. On the radarscopes of distant destroyers and aircraft, of early-warning stations from the Canadian Arctic and Alaska to towers planted deep in Atlantic waters, appeared a multitude of bogey blips. They were caused by about 250 Strategic Air Command B-478, B-528 and refueling tankers, along with Vulcan bombers of Britain's Royal Air Force. Many of these planes were homebound from foreign bases; others had slipped...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). How do you stop an enemy missile? It's done, if at all, with NORAD, SAC, BMEWS, DEW, MIDAS and SAMOS...
Partridge succeeded Weyland as Far East Air Force commander in chief in 1954. Three years later, as head of the U.S.-Canadian interservice North American Air Defense Command, he tried to clean up the classic NORAD interservice rivalry, succeeded in getting the Joint Chiefs to back up the NORAD commander with some (but, by Partridge's lights, not enough) additional powers...
...replace him at NORAD's headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Eisenhower last week tabbed four-star General Lawrence S. (for Sherman) Kuter, 53, Air Force commander in the Pacific. A brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...