Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican side, there is little sign of any solid movement to stand against the Democratic attack. The band of liberal Republican Senators who have rallied around Ike before are themselves nervous about his leadership, and have turned to Vice President Nixon for counsel. "In our own self-interest," said one ex-Ikeman, "we've got to convince the electorate that we are more energetic than Eisenhower." New Jersey's Clifford Case has already called for more aid to education than the Administration is expected to propose, and for better defense than it has produced; New York...
...promising answer to the problem is the Navy's 1,500-mile test-missile Polaris. Reason: it is fueled with a solid propellant. The Navy turned to solid fuels because it wants a missile that can be fired from submarines or surface vessels, and liquid-oxygen fueling is too complex for shipboard handling. Since solid-fuel missiles can be fired in the minutes needed to arm their warhead and make the final check on their guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting...
...solid fuel is by no means a proved item. Solid-charge missiles have less thrust than liquid propellants, cannot carry as heavy a warhead per pound of fuel. Critics of solid fuel argue that it requires a canister that can withstand great pressures, that solid fuel blasts off with a jolt that is rough on the missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop...
...Navy is giving top priority to solid-fuel shortcomings, hopes for a flight test of Polaris next summer or fall. Says Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke about Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, officer in charge of Polaris: "He is the only man in the Navy who has a blank check. All he has to do is say 'I want,' and he gets." If the faults can be whipped, even the most loyal Air Force birdmen admit that their lox systems will probably give way to solid fuels in the next round of missile development...
...West is always ready to listen to practical offers of disarmament. A large part of this need -as reflected by Germany's Konrad Adenauer-stemmed from Russia's successes with the Sputniks, which had encouraged Europe's neutralists and embarrassed the U.S.'s most solid friends...