Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missile Deterrent. The U.S. will continue to rely on liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan intercontinental missiles. The bill will complete the Air Force's 13-squadron Atlas program (with a total of 135 missiles), allow for twelve squadrons of Titans (with a total of 108 missiles). But the future...
While this year's Harmon International Aviator's Trophy honoring "the world's outstanding pilot" predictably went to a team of X-15 jockeys - Test Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White -the...
Take Notice. The Pentagon is trying to find new formulas. The Navy, which has shown how to move fast and effi ciently with its Polaris program, is developing a management-control system nicknamed "Mascot." Mascot's goal: to give on one giant diagram a clear picture of the function...
On NATO, Kennedy pledged the U.S. to increase its capability to wage conventional war in Europe. He asked Canada to do the same. To strengthen NATO's atomic force, Kennedy again offered to give the command five Polaris submarines that would "make clear our own intentions and commitments."
A $20,000 Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most...