Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamental firepower of the U.S. continues to be in missiles. Al though men like LeMay and McConnell will continue to argue for the manned bomber (and while SAC's flocks of B-52s and B-58s are still a valuable part of the nation's nuclear delivery force), the decision has been to discontinue further development of manned bombers, such as the controversial RS-70. Instead, enormous amounts of money are being spent to beef up the Minuteman batteries and nuclear submarine-launched missiles, among them Poseidon, which will double the megatonnage of Polaris. In Omaha, the Joint...
...right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from the academy - and before the investigation is completed, anywhere from 100 to 300 more cadets may be bounced back...
Triple Power. Johnson duly ticked off the impressive statistics of U.S. weaponry: more than 850 land-based ICBMs, more than 300 nuclear-armed Po'aris missiles borne by submarines, more than 900 long-range SAC bombers. In the past four years, he said, ready-to-fire nuclear strategic power has tripled. Special Forces to fight "the undeclared, twilight wars of today" have expanded eightfold, troop airlift capacity has doubled...
...there has been a cerebral thrombosis." Though he had rallied with astonishing vitality from earlier illness, including two previous strokes, Churchill at 90 was feeble and weary; his illness, said Moran, was "very serious indeed." In a chilling wind and rain, sorrowing Britons gathered quietly in the cul-de-sac outside Churchill's red brick house at 28 Hyde Park Gate...
Analyzing the Waters. The first breakthrough was a diagnostic technique involving the insertion of a hypodermic needle through the walls of the mother's abdomen and uterus, into the amniotic sac (bag of waters). Fluid withdrawn through the needle showed the extent to which the baby's Rh-positive cells were being destroyed by antibody from the Rh-negative mother. If the damage was moderate, obstetricians delivered the baby prematurely and gave it transfusions of Rh-negative blood. But if the fluid showed severe damage when the fetus was still too premature for delivery, the obstetrician could only...