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...Force's new version of the controversial 2,000-m.p.h. B70 which both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations cut back out of fear that the sleek bomber would be outmoded by missiles before it ever got into the air. This year the Air Force wants to modify the B70 plans and build the RS-70, which would be designed to fly over an enemy country hit by U.S. missiles, inspect the damage by radar, radio back reports and attack surviving targets with nuclear-tipped missiles. LeMay and Vinson, insisting that the U.S. will continue to need such bombers...
...Minuteman ICBMs instead of the planned 200. LeMay also took issue with McNamara's plan to spend a total of $1,300,000,000 to develop the B70 supersonic bomber during the coming years. LeMay claimed that $5,000,000,000 should be spent to develop the sleek bomber...
...Give it a good wham," counseled Skipper Archie Robertson. Nodding, Dame Pattie Menzies-wife of Australia's Prime Minister-wound up and whammed. A bottle of champagne smashed across its bow, Australia's sleek America's Cup challenger [TIME, March 2] was properly christened at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Its name: Gretel, after the late wife of Sir Frank Packer -chairman of the Down Under syndicate that spent $700,000 to build the boat...
...Sleek, sonorous Joseph F. Carlino...
...addition to the cruise fleet. The Home Lines is building an unnamed 34,000-ton "Ship of Tomorrow" that will be ready in 1963 for summer and fall transatlantic service from Montreal and for winter-spring operation from New York to the Caribbean. Grace Lines this week launched its sleek new 14,000-ton Santa Magdalena, which will carry cargo and 127 passengers between New York and west coast ports in South America. So profitable is the cruise business in fact that even big transatlantic liners like the Leonardo da Vinci and the United States are being diverted for special...