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...NATO allies offer the U.S. unwavering support during the Cuban missile crisis, strengthening ties across the Atlantic. Kennedy offends the British by canceling production of the Skybolt missile that would give them an independent nuclear deterrent...
Brown was partly responsible for killing the B70 bomber (too vulnerable to Soviet air defenses) and the Skybolt missile (too unreliable). He was also involved in decisions to go ahead with a more advanced land-based Minuteman missile, the C-5A air transport, early research on the B-1 and on'the F-111 fighter-bomber (an $8 billion mistake...
...Discernible Duties. The two often turned up in the presidential entourage when Kennedy was traveling. Although assigned no discernible duties, they were with Kennedy in Nassau when he met Macmillan to discuss cancellation of the Skybolt missile program, at Yosemite Park when he plugged conservation measures, at Palm Beach when he was vacationing. They usually were assigned quarters near the President and were code-named "Fiddle" and "Faddle" by the Secret Service...
...Skybolt. Most of the new business came from airlines' rushing to line up early delivery dates for the 490-passenger 747, the first of which is due in 1969. Counting United's order, Boeing has announced sales of 25 of the giants, worth $550 million, since...
...more sales of its bread-and-butter 707s and tri-jet 727s, Boeing also picked up its first major Pentagon order since 1958. Under an initial $236 million contract, the company will develop and produce a nuclear-tipped SRAM (for short-range attack missile), a sort of son of Skybolt that can be launched from airborne bombers, guided to targets 100 miles away. SRAM may be worth $1 billion to Boeing eventually...