Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inglewood, Calif., deputy headquarters for the Air Force Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems division commander, Major General Thomas P. Gerrity, 47, another SAC veteran, start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m., log 65 hours a week on the job, and expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered that keeping pace with the construction problems that arise...
...crew will work and live. The green-walled, fluorescent-lighted upper floor is crammed with consoles, television monitors and countdown timers. For each Titan there is a switch marked with multiple target designations. If the occasion ever comes, the crew will receive a coded target message from SAC headquarters at Omaha, flip switches accordingly. The missile will be fueled automatically, the surface doors opened, the Titan raised a foot a second to ground level and fired within minutes...
...anything worthy of genuine national pride, but also the small-town pettiness of outlook that is the shadow side of many Canadian virtues. Far from contributing to the growth of a stronger, more independent nation, Canadian nationalism has been diverting Canada into a narrow and garbage-cluttered cul-de-sac...
...make this deterrent even stronger, President Kennedy wants to give the Air Force another $86 million to retain two or three air wings of medium-range B-47 bombers (which had been marked for deactivation). In addition, the new proposals will speed up the program to put half of SAC's bombers on 15-minute ground alert...
...wrong side of the plane," recalled a nervous lady. At Miami International airport, FAA radar observers were aware of trouble, too. Efforts to raise the plane by radio failed. An eavesdropping Pan American pilot on a training flight slid his jet close by to identify the Electra. From SAC's Homestead Air Force Base came a fully armed F-102 to hover watchfully 5,000 ft. above the hijacked plane...