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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders from the President, is an appallingly long-delayed decision between the rival liquid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the Air Force's Thor and the Army's Jupiter. Last week's splendid 6,300-mile performance by Atlas may also firm a tentative decision to slow down on or drop the Air Force's alternative intercontinental ballistic missile Titan. Also to be cut back or discarded: the Navy's unreliable Vanguard, the Army's reliable but bulky Redstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Ideas Under the Ceiling | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...builds up? Why not divert some of that money into speeding up Minuteman? With that idea in mind, the Air Force wants to spend more than ten times as much on Minuteman in 1960 as it is spending this year-$250 million v. $22 million. B58 procurement will probably slow down; the Titan program may shrink drastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Ideas Under the Ceiling | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Sweep by the Democrats | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Zendibad Shahanshah [Long live the King of Kings]!" The Shah made a the brief speech commenting on the good relations between Italy and Iran, which, he said, "were reinforced by the oil agreement." Oil and the influence of the Shah are perhaps the two most important factors in the slow but certain awakening of the Iranian nation from the sleep of decadent centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Gamble | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...moving gradually" toward a definite and lasting goal, DuPlessis went on, but "people won't believe us." He said that a slow adjustment toward total separation is taking place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DuPlessis Maintains Segregation Only Solution for South Africans | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

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