Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAC, the Klaxon Is a Call to Arms...
...power: the U.S. deterrent is only as good as its reaction time. Today, the free world's one great deterrent is the Strategic Air Command's 24-hour-a-day, year-round ground alert system, a wonder of organizational achievement that keeps a rotating one-third of SAC bomber forces so sensitized that they can get off within 15 minutes' notice from any one of at least 65 SAC bases on the globe. Last week TIME Correspondent Ed Rees reported from SAC's Westover A.F.B. in Massachusetts on one B-52 alert crew in action...
...over that eating honey is permissible, and this is surprising because generally the product of any nonkosher animal is forbidden. Why the exception for honey? Traditional halacha explains this on the ground that the honey never enters the system of the bee but merely rests in the nectar sac, where it becomes honey. Science now knows that the bee secretes an enzyme that changes the nectar to honey. In recent Orthodox opinions, an enzyme from a nonkosher animal (such as a bee) is forbidden to Jews; enzymes used in the making of kosher cheese, for instance, must come from kosher...
...Cleveland's Dr. Claude S. Beck (TIME, March 25, 1957) and Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Thompson (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950) relied on a different principle. If tissues in and around the heart are irritated, they develop an increased blood supply. So these surgeons opened the heart sac and supplied an irritant by dusting with talc or asbestos. Good results have been reported, but the procedure is a major operation, for which many heart patients are too weak...
...fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne SAC alert, he said: "Any person without bias-that is, not trying to sell missiles or balance the budget-has got to assume that the President is taking a dangerous, dangerous gamble with our national survival. I don't think he has the right...