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...first stage has three times either failed to ignite or properly to lift the bird; twice, the second stage failed to fire. McNamara stressed Skybolt's "enormous complexity,'' noted that Skybolt development is lagging a year behind schedule, argued that the U.S.'s silo-protected, fast-firing Minuteman ICBM has vastly diminished the need for Skybolt...
...Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only 500 of them paved. At the sites, the TE's raise the birds, slide them gently into place...
Strangely, it is one small bin within the towering silo of the farm mess that has so far proved the most controversial in the Breeding-Dole race. Breeding strongly backs an Administration plan for exporting wheat to Japan; since June, Japan has bought more than 3,000,000 bushels of Kansas wheat. But the Administration plan, for reasons not quite clear, also requires storing that exportable wheat in California, rather than Kansas. Breeding's stand is very attractive to Kansas wheat growers. It enrages Kansas' wheat storage men, who seem likely to lose a lot of business...
Chief developer of the retirement cities is a 6-ft. 4-in., 63-year-old maelstrom of restless energy named Delbert Eugene Webb (see box). Construction is Del Webb's business-construction of anything and everything from a silo to a skyscraper-and in 1955, casting about for ways and means to expand his burgeoning Del E. Webb Corp., he bethought himself of the retirement market...
...this was a $3,000,000 business. With World War II, the Webb company moved into the big time, built most of the air stations and military installations in Arizona and Southern California. Among current projects, he is building with George A. Fuller Co. a $62 million Minuteman missile silo complex in Montana, and with Humble Oil Co. is working on an estimated $375-$500 million community, covering 15,000 acres southeast of Houston, which will house the employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new center for manned spacecraft...