Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force announced in December that its ROTC unit here and 20 other installations would be discontinued after the 1956-57 academic year. Officials made no provision for commissioning students who were in the basic phase...
Jones's program calls for sophomores to complete both courses in the advanced phase of ROTC, Air Science 3 and 4, in the next three terms. Students will take two courses in the next two terms, and finish with a single course in the spring of 1957. They will probably be able to make up the two hours per week of drill required for all reservists by participating in Army or Navy ROTC drill periods...
Seventeen sophomores were enrolled in the unit when the Air Force announced that the program would be discontinued. These students would have been required to pass a physical exam in order to enter the advanced phase of the program...
...figure in the gestation phase of the missile industry was K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, then president of Chrysler Corp., whom President Truman put in charge of the program in 1950. Production Man Keller had little patience with visionary plans; he wanted hardware, both in the factories and in the skies, and he got it. The missiles now in operational use-the Matador, Nike, Corporal, Terrier-are the result of Keller's drive. Since most of them are soon to be replaced, Keller has been criticized for loading the inventory with so-so weapons. But this was inevitable...
...good example of the complication of missiles. The fighter plane that carries them is guided by ground radar until it is 20 miles from an invading bomber. Then the fighter's own radar picks up the target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons' range, the pilot throws a switch, and the Falcons wake up. Their little gyros spin; the antennae in their noses search for the enemy. What the Falcons' delicate senses...