Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been based primarily on the judgment of men most qualified to make such an appraisal. Our decisions, more often than not, have been made within the framework of the Government's annual budget.* This control has, again and again, appeared and reappeared as the prime limitation upon our scientific advancement . . . What should be our goal? If, out in space, there is the ultimate position-from which total control of the earth may be exercised-then our national goal and the goal of all free men must be to win and hold that position...
...have scored at least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas...
...missile power equation, the offensive is so far ahead of the defensive that antiaircraft and anti-missile systems can hardly expect to achieve more than 25% effectiveness. The U.S. is nonetheless now developing 25 defensive missiles, with prime attention to the Air Force's area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army...
...single year as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, persuasive, even-tempered Peter Thorneycroft, 48, had established himself as a prospective Tory Prime Minister. His sponsorship of the British plan for a free trade area embracing all Western Europe (TIME, Jan. 28) earned him a reputation for vision; he won the admiration of Britain's business community by his unflinching fight against the domestic inflation that lies at the root of Britain's economic difficulties. Early last week the Times of London gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan high marks for "coolly and firmly backing a courageous Chancellor...
...allowances, retorted that the amount involved was trifling-less than 1% of the projected budget. The showdown came at a late-night Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street. Peter Thorneycroft found all 17 of the other ministers present arrayed against him. Taut and white-faced, he announced that the Prime Minister would have his resignation forthwith...