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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Beyond the Earth | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

The new plans-first sketched out in Ike's message to Congress and detailed later on by Defense Secretary Thomas Gates-called for spending about $476 million more, $150 million of it in fiscal 1961 (ending next June 30). The money will be distributed among a variety of projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Ike Retreats | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

To many a company such sweeping write-offs would be fatal, would send the stock skittering down. But Bob Gross guessed that he could get away with it, timed the announcement to follow the successful launching from a submarine of the Lockheed-manufactured Polaris missile.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: In One Big Gulp | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back to Work | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Casual Wager | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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