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Wed., Dec. 19 Polaris Submarine: Journal of an Undersea Voyage (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* Six NBC newsmen went along on the U.S.S.
High-Flying Pad. Skybolt's defenders insist that the five test failures are virtually meaningless; almost all missiles have failed in their early tests, including Polaris. The Skybolt enthusiasts say that their bird, along with Polaris and Minuteman, would give the U.S. greater missile flexibility-an aim long pursued...
But Robert McNamara remains unimpressed; to him, Skybolt seems worth neither the cost nor the effort. Groans an Air Force strategist: ''They threw our Skybolt into a cost-effectiveness computer. and it came up 'tilt.' " If Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with...
In seeking to soothe the British, the U.S. made it clear that Britain is free to go ahead with Skybolt-at its own expense. But this would require an increase of about 30% in Britain's income tax-a prospect hardly palatable to any government, much less Prime Minister...
Fast & Simple. Minuteman is the weapons system that, with the Navy's Polaris submarines, is making the so-called "missile gap" a real missile gap-favoring the West. Within a year, Montana will have 150 Minutemen in place. Another 650 have been authorized for South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri...