Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater figures that the U.S. Strategic Air Command's estimated 1,080 first-line bombers can carry 24-mega-ton bombs, or, 25,920 megatons of destructive power. He places total megaton capability of U.S. missiles at 2,650. Goldwater assumes that all but about 50 of the SAC planes will have been phased out by the mid-'70s. From Pentagon announcements, furthermore, Goldwater researchers place the mid-'70s missile force at 1,000 Minuteman and 656 Polaris missiles, each capable of delivering a one-megaton payload. Deliverable capacity then would be 1,656 megatons from missiles...
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY Thomas S. Power, General, U.S. Air Force, Commander in Chief of SAC-LL.D. The leader of those patriotic Americans who are proud that peace is their profession...
...founded the firm 50 years ago to specialize in church architecture, but under Leo Jr. it was moved far afield since World War II. About half of its work is designing such military projects as blastproof silos for Titan missiles DEW-line facilities in the Arctic and the big SAC underground command post near Omaha. Dalys also designed Boeing's big computer center in Seattlen and a $4,700,000 physics lab at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Til. Daly's 300-man staff is now working on 60 projects worth more than $200 million, including a dormitory...
...McConnell, 56, to be Air Force vice chief of staff on July 31, replacing retiring General William F. McKee. A West Pointer ('32) who got his wings at Randolph Field in 1933, McConnell served in the Far East in World War II, was vice chief of staff at SAC, is currently deputy commander of the European Command...
...when Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay retires in February. That prospect disposes of rumors that LeMay's successor will be General Bernard Schriever (TIME cover, April 1, 1957), boss of the Air Force Systems Command and pioneer expert in ballistic missiles development. One possibility for Schriever: command of SAC, now in the hands of General Thomas Power, who plans to retire in November...