Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...
...gone); it is all futility and grief in a shabby-genteel apartment, where Amanda, a woman uprooted from her way of life, her daughter Laura, who knows nearly no one and fears everyone she does not know, and Laura's restless brother Tom, try to escape their cul-de-sac, and help one another out of it, in every way they can. Uniquely, perhaps, among Tennessee Williams' major works, this one has no dominating masculine figure to bring it to an explosion of melodrama. "Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material," the author says of it, "atmospheric touches...
...Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; General Henry ("Hank") Everest, commander, Tactical Air Command...
...each of the three completed pads forming the base's Launch Complex 65-1, a twelve-story-high missile nestled in its gantry. Two more of the 200-ton silvery rockets, painted for the first time with the SAC insignia, lay in reserve, their H-bomb war heads stored near by, ready for installation in brief minutes. After five test flops followed by four successes in a row at Cape Canaveral, the U.S.'s prime weapon of deterrence seemed ready at last to serve Vandenberg's twin functions as an operational base for the launching of ICBMs...
Within months, Vandenberg will add new sets of pads to handle the increasing supply of production-line missiles. Vandenberg-trained SACmen will eventually form nine SAC Atlas squadrons, stationed at seven ICBM bases now under construction in Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and Washington. Meanwhile, the men in helmets-green for safety, white for command, orange for fuel and brown for the contractors' personnel-are ready to fire their first Atlases from the pads of Complex...