Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's top investment banking houses are millionaires; their salaries run about three times as high as those of officers in competing commercial banks. Hundreds of young men have ridden to riches in the long postwar bull market. John F. Donahue, 41, a West Pointer and former SAC pilot, did so well selling mutual funds door-to-door that in 1955 he decided to form his own fund, Federated Plans. He is now worth...
Communications with SAC and NORAD headquarters were checked and found intact. NORAD reported nothing alien or unfriendly in the skies over the U.S. "The Pentagon," said a senior officer, "remained calm, although pulses quickened...
...most valuable in the Soviet military treasure chest. Penkovsky's equivalent in U.S. circles, say his U.S. editors, would have been "a vice president of the Rand Corp., a graduate of West Point and the Military War College, a close friend of the general in charge of SAC, secretly a division head in the Central Intelligence Agency, with important contacts in the Pentagon...
...overkill run riot, using elephants to swat mosquitoes. But the point was to hit the V.C. without warning (the B-52s fly so high that they are seldom seen or heard by their targets) in the heart of their eleven major strongholds, keep them edgy and off balance. The SAC planes have hit such strongholds as the Iron Triangle hard and often, and it is now so pitted with B-52 bomb craters and caved-in V.C. tunnels that wags call it the "Gruyere Triangle." Airpower may well prove to be the guerrillas' worst enemy. The Reds are less...
...Blue. The battle for Saigon's edge may swell soon: two new Viet Cong regiments have recently arrived on the scene. Already the U.S. has beefed up its response. Last week Saigon felt the explosive touch of Guam-based B-52s, as the giant SAC bombers hit a V.C. troop concentration only 20 miles from the capital. It was the 17th mission for the B-52s since they were first brought into the war last June. Though each plane's sortie on the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam costs $30,000, the B-52s have distinct...