Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much stress on test shots at Cape Canaveral that it has not put enough effort into preparing missile bases. Construction contractors selected by the Corps of Engineers often farmed the work to subcontractors who underestimated the task, sometimes buckled under the pressure. At Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, where Atlas launching sites are three months behind schedule, New York's Malan-Grove Construction Co. gave 90% of the work to 46 subcontractors. Two of them ran into financial difficulties and are now being operated by bonding companies. At the Offutt launching sites, nine concrete pedestals intended for support...
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...From the President, the order would be flashed to SAC headquarters in Omaha, which would relay it to the U.S. officer in Britain in command of U.S. warheads. From the Prime Minister, a parallel order would go to Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross, commander of the Thor squadrons. Air Marshal Cross would transmit the order to each Thor station. The R.A.F. officer, inserting his key in the lower slot, would start the fully automatic 15-minute countdown to nuclear...
...report on Reston and the Washington press, onetime Chicago United Pressman Charles Mohr temporarily moved out of the White House, where he has been TIME'S correspondent since 1957. The Reston cover was written by Contributing Editor John Koffend, a reporter and columnist for the Omaha World-Herald from 1946 until 1954, when he came to TIME, first as a Los Angeles bureau correspondent, then as a National Affairs writer in New York and, since 1958, as TIME'S Press writer. It was edited by Senior Editor James Keogh, another onetime Omaha newspaperman, who was a World-Herald...
...trainer of such great thoroughbreds of the past as Gallant Fox, Johnstown and Omaha, Mr. Fitz had always been lucky at Hialeah. There, in recent seasons, he had developed Nashua and, most recently, Bold Ruler, 1957's horse of the year. Nashua's first get, frisky two-year-olds, are training now at Hialeah side by side with those of Swaps, the great California horse that beat Nashua in the 1955 Kentucky Derby. But Mr. Fitz last week had eyes only for the Wheatley Stable's three-year-old Progressing, a capricious colt getting ready...