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...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...Most of the Problems arise from the "concurrency" concept, under which the silo complexes are being built. To get the job completed as quickly as possible, the Army Corps of Engineers-which supervises actual construction for the Air Force-puts as many as five contractors to work on a project at the same time. Their work must dovetail perfectly, with tolerances to the disappearing point. If one contractor does not place an electrical junction box precisely right on a silo wall, it will not link with the cable being laid concurrently by another crew. If a silo...
...more demanding than calling an air express agent at 3 a.m. to trace a high-priority package. But it may also be chasing down a truly dangerous bandit. Example: finding out what happened in the collapse a fortnight ago of a 58-ton silo door at a Titan complex near Denver, which killed five men, indicated that the design of the huge doors may be faulty...
...rates a high priority for both the U.S. and Russia. Only India, Indonesia and the U.A.R. have received more Soviet help. The U.S. has contributed nearly $15 per Afghan in economic aid. The Russians have used their money to build their customary eye-catching projects-a giant silo and a bakery in Kabul, a quick-surfacing job on Kabul's streets-while the U.S. has invested some $50 million in the long-term Helmand Valley irrigation project, where results will come more slowly but ultimately will be of more value to Afghanistan's economy...
...doing reasonably well in military space craft. The solid-fuel Minuteman proved long ago that it can take off handily from an underground silo; last week a two-stage, 110-ton liquid-fuel Titan also took off from a silo. Pre ceded by a burst of flame, it roared out of a 146-ft. concrete-lined hole at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Since it carried a dummy second stage, it flew for only 140 seconds before it was deliberately "destructed" by radio command. But it proved that even comparatively tender liquid-fuel rockets, which are heavy weight lifters...