Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These two events would have been plenty for a single week. But in the accumulating momentum of missilery, U.S. missilemen fired successful test shots of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic mis siles, got off a Polaris intermediate-range missile that traveled 1,100 miles, sent three Bomarc defensive missiles after...
To Feed the Hungry. Aware that both Nixon and Kennedy were suggesting that the U.S. should do more about defense, the President noted "changing Communist tactics and attitudes," announced that he had ordered the armed forces to take "certain practical measures" to increase their readiness, called for five new Polaris...
This was the payoff on the bold gamble that committed $3.5 billions of the national defense budget before a single shot was fired. It was the first installment on the Polaris fleet that will run up a bill as large as the entire budget for the Strategic Air Command. But...
* Until the outsize Polaris came along the Navy had traditionally classified subs as boats. Polaris subs are the first to escape the traditional fish names, are named for U.S. heroes on the suggestion of an ex-Army general named Eisenhower.
Voices in the Night. On his 40-day, 4,000-mile journey, Chichester not only missed being run down; he saw only three other ships. Once a Russian tanker, jammed with radar gear, circled him cautiously, apparently decided he was not a Polaris sub, and steamed away. One dusk, said...