Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strategic Air Commander Thomas S. Power was chatting with the Omaha World-Herald's military reporter, Howard Silber. Power praised the reconnaissance capability of his B-58s ("they can go anywhere and do anything"), touted SAC's present strength, but insisted that a new manned bomber is still needed. Asked about rumors that he might soon quit, Power replied matter-of-factly: "I'm not quitting. They are asking me to leave...
...from a book related to his official duties. Except that it urged "complete unification" of the armed forces and raised questions about some aspects of U.S. defenses, little has been disclosed about the book. Rated most likely to succeed Power is General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., 54, a former SAC officer and present head of the Tactical Air Command...
...worth of multilevel parking garages, plus other parking areas, which all take in $964,000 a year in fees. Yet this costly effort provides only 10,486 campus spaces for 38,800 students and teachers, and a 60-man staff has to herd U.C.L.A. cars in and out like SAC bombers on a red alert...
...bomber nuzzles up to a jet tanker for mid-air refueling while the sound track pours forth an unctuous ballad called Try a Little Tenderness. Cut to Burpelson Air Force Base, where General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches the offensive against Russia, then severs communications with SAC. Hayden's playing seems extremely right. His Ripper is impotent, a one-man military complex who means singlehanded to save the world from water fluoridation and other Communist plots "that threaten the purity and essence of our natural fluids." He alone knows the three-letter code signal to recall the bombers...
Even if these are the figures Goldwater has in mind, the Pentagon insists, he is telling only part of the story. Because of the "mix" of the total ∙ U.S. nuclear force and the multiple-teaming of strategic objectives by "cross-targeting," SAC Commander Thomas Power says, he is certain that 90% of the targets would get plastered by U.S. missiles. The mix of which Power talks includes 554 ICBMs, 176 submarine-launched Polaris Al and A2 solid-fueled missiles (90% reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles...