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...cameras. In the event of nuclear war, a plane with the All's capabilities could fly high over a hostile land after a missile strike; its crew could note whether selected targets have been hit and destroyed. If any are still surviving, the All could radio for another salvo of Minutemen, which would arrive in 30 minutes. It might even drop an H-bomb itself, but this would not be easy. When an All type speedster gets near enough to a target to observe it clearly, it will have already passed the optimum release point. Its bomb will have...
...free TV plugs if they switched to giving away its low-suds Dash or high-suds Tide instead. When a new "active" All formula successfully slowed the upward pace of Dash, P. & G. moved to a new battleground by bringing out a low-suds detergent in tablet form called Salvo, backed by a $26 million ad campaign. Lever counterattacked with a tablet, Vim, but Dash and Salvo now have half the low-suds business...
...plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...
...nation's security. Then Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee sided with LeMay, backed a bill that would give the Pentagon a direct order to speed construction of the RS-70. Last week McNamara, his patience gone, called a press conference to fire a salvo of facts and figures calculated to shoot down the RS-70-and his critics as well...
Only a day after McNamara's salvo, Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert stopped pushing for a stepped-up RS-70 program and fell in line with the Defense Secretary. That arrayed President Kennedy, McNamara, all three service secretaries and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff except Curt LeMay behind a throttled-back RS-70 program. Undeterred, Carl Vinson's committee sent to the House its bill to force the RS-70 on the Administration...