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...valuable part of the nation's nuclear delivery force), the decision has been to discontinue further development of manned bombers, such as the controversial RS-70. Instead, enormous amounts of money are being spent to beef up the Minuteman batteries and nuclear submarine-launched missiles, among them Poseidon, which will double the megatonnage of Polaris. In Omaha, the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinates the targets at which missiles, landlocked and at sea, are aimed. Mostly they are pointed at critical bull's-eyes in Red China and Russia...
There was nothing very new in all this. Most of the new-sounding weapons or projects cited in the message actually have been in the research and planning stage for some time and are now gradually nearing production. They include: 1) the Poseidon missile, a new name for the Polaris B-3, which will be more accurate than the present Polaris and will double its firepower to about two megatons; 2) an air-launched short-range attack missile (SRAM) with a 150-mile capability, which plugs the gap between the ten-mile Bull...
...love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen. As Hippolytus drives along the seashore, Poseidon sends a sea monster to scare his horses. Flung from his chariot, Hippolytus is entangled in the reins and cruelly dragged and mangled to death...
...Davis, is simply enough written to be read by an intelligent parent to an intelligent eight-year-old. Graves lets his readers see the Olympians as the more sophisticated Greeks saw them-beings more than mortal, but no more than human. He explains, for instance, that the sea god Poseidon "hated to be less important than his younger brother (Zeus), and always went about scowling. When he felt even crosser than usual, he would drive away in his chariot to a palace under the waves, near the island of Euboea, and there let his rage cool. As his emblem Poseidon...
Frilled Skirts. By evening, Ike was in Athens, and cheering throngs lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman...