Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though a Soviet cruiser radioed last week that it was joining the search, U.S. military men wondered whether the SAC plane was yet another victim of the cold war's silent battle in the skies...
...crack transcontinental limiteds. In many ways it was the most important train in the nation. Instead of cash-paying passengers or revenue freight, it carried 45 hand-picked officers and men of the Strategic Air Command and enough communications gear to put them in instant and constant contact with SAC bases around the world. Ranging from the deserts of Nevada to the plains of Wyoming and the mountain country of Montana, they shook down the train that in three years will be operating over 100,000 miles of U.S. rails with the Air Force's second-generation, solid-fuel...
...whole controversy: "My objection to the art, like the jury comment, is based on the fact that it reflects a declining aesthetic climate. The early 1950's saw the break-through of our native abstract pioneers into fresh realms of feeling; today that movement seems in a cul-de-sac in which imitation and repetition have momentarily taken the place of creative statement. If the art in the Festival has little to say, why blame the Festival because we're in the tag-end of a stylistic period from which new forms arise? The cure for the atonal music...
...backing of its allies. The summit meeting came at a time when all evidence indicated that in the competition between the U.S. and Russia, the U.S. was doing well. The revelation that U.S. planes had been flying over Russia for four years helped to reassure the nervous that SAC still could deliver its deterrent blow despite Khrushchev's vaunted rockets, and was an encouraging indication that U.S. intelligence had resources more sophisticated than those of Brooklyn-based Soviet Agent Rudolf Abel, now serving 30 years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for his spying. Where the varied dissatisfactions of the Chinese...
...have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating ice islands, which the Russians maintain as emergency landing strips in the Arctic...