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STRANGERS (174 pp.)-Albert Memmi -Orion...
...Within hours of the Explorer VII firing, and not far away, a B-47 bomber rose seven miles above the Atlantic. It hovered off the Florida coast until the orbiting Explorer VI was passing overhead; then the three-man crew launched a two-stage, solid-fuel Bold Orion missile...
...Martin-made missile lifted into a steep arc, soared "within ten miles" of Explorer VI, 156 miles up. It then continued squarely on course, plunking into the ocean 1,000 miles from the launch spot. The Air Force's argument: an airborne ballistic missile like Bold Orion, mounted on a long-endurance B70 bomber, would provide instantaneous retaliation against aggression, from a missile base that would be difficult to pinpoint and knock out; it might also be used against enemy satellites or spaceships. ¶Next day an Army solid-fuel Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile streaked across the skies...
...Such businesslike activity shared Canaveral spotlights with successful tests of the solid-fuel, second-generation Titan ICBM and the air-launched (from a B-47) Bold Orion experimental IRBM (TIME...
...husbands along. Though low-income husbands were most jealous of their masculine rights, they submitted more to their wives' opinions than high-income husbands. Most important for Du Pont, it is the wives who are most receptive to synthetic fibers, such as Du Font's Dacron and Orion...