Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year is 1967. On U.S. air defense screens, an Unidentified Flying Object is spotted near Greenland. Is this a Russian attack? Against that possibility, U.S. bombers speed to various "fail-safe" points. If the Soviet Union has really started war, the bombers will rain nuclear death on Russia; if it is a false alarm, the bombers will turn back. It turns out that the UFO is only a commercial airliner that has gone off course. Most of the Strategic Air Command bombers return to their bases. But wait! One six-bomber squadron is heading past its fail-safe point toward...
This is the plot of Fail-Safe, a novel that has sold 280,000 copies, stands near the top of all bestseller lists and last week was sold to the movies for a cool $500,000. It was written by two political science professors: the University of California's Eugene Burdick, who also co-authored The Ugly American, and Washington and Lee's Harvey Wheeler. One reason for Fail-Safe's great success is found in the authors' introduction. "There is." they say. "substantial agreement among experts that an accidental war is possible and that...
Then, much too late, the matches became close and exciting. Although the Crimson won three of the next four, Cornell was safe enough to forfeit the unlimited match to Bob Fastov, and return to New York with their second league victory...
FICTION 1. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (1, last week...
Between sessions of Congress, Mills goes home to Arkansas, making speeches, meeting with an endless flow of constituents in his office in Searcy, traveling back-country roads to chat with voters in his basso drawl. Mills has a safe seat, has not had any opposition for the Democratic nomination in his district since 1944?but he behaves as if a formidable challenger were eternally at his heels...