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Coming to the Defense Department from Detroit, where details on next year's models are kept as secret as SAC war plans, Ford Motor Co. President Robert McNamara naturally thought that news is what the public relations staff sees fit to tell reporters. But Detroit is not Washington, and a defense establishment that spends $40 billion of the taxpayers' money each year must necessarily allow a considerable degree of public scrutiny. That lesson is one that Defense Secretary McNamara is still trying to learn...
Favored to succeed Air Force Chief Thomas White, 59, who is planning to retire this summer, is Vice Chief Curtis LeMay, 54, the brambly former SAC commander. LeMay, a military "conservative," molds his thinking around here-and-now weapons rather than futuristic ones on the drawing board. Thus Air Force research and development leaders are still bucking his appointment...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). How do you stop an enemy missile? It's done, if at all, with NORAD, SAC, BMEWS, DEW, MIDAS and SAMOS...
...common-sense appraisal makes it patently apparent that neither Russia nor anyone else could launch an attack that would simultaneously knock out all 1,500 planes, 100 SAC bases, ships at sea, submarines, and 300-odd overseas bases, including rocket sites. If they are that good, neither twelve planes nor 120 planes will "save...
...Pacific, men from Navy patrols check in on the trust territory islands of Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read the results into the ready ICBMs that form part of the U.S. retaliatory force...