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...Rivals. No one could mistake the Big Two-Editors Nancy White of Harper's Bazaar and Diana Vreeland of Vogue (known to every friend and nonfriend in the trade as "Dee-ann"). Flanked by a squadron of outriders, they did not so much attend a show as occupy it. Miss White, a nonviolently well-dressed woman, with her broken wrist (the result of a slip on the ice before she left the U.S.) bound in a sling that changed daily with her outfit, got the honored spot on Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed...
...will rain nuclear death on Russia; if it is a false alarm, the bombers will turn back. It turns out that the UFO is only a commercial airliner that has gone off course. Most of the Strategic Air Command bombers return to their bases. But wait! One six-bomber squadron is heading past its fail-safe point toward Moscow! Something horrible has gone wrong! A little electronic device in one of the U.S.'s billion-dollar, foolproof, fail-safe machines is on the fritz. Thermonuclear war is about to start by mistake. The President of the U.S. calls Khrushchev...
FICTION : The condenser's failure actuates a red light on a fail-safe "black box" in the errant squadron commander's cockpit. The code numbers that show up in the box jibe with the secret code packets held by pilot and copilot, authenticating the "go" signal...
...Strategic Air Command last week took control of a new squadron of twelve Atlas missiles at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York-bringing to 200 the total of U.S. combat-ready intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nuclear-tipped arsenal includes 126 liquid-fueled Atlases; 54 Titans, a bigger and heavier liquid-fueled missile; and 20 quick-firing, solid-fueled Minutemen. Each has a range of 6,000 miles or more, and each is zeroed in on an assigned target in the Soviet Union. The present total is at least twice the estimated strength of the Russian missile force...
...Hong Kong, where his official regimental duty is second-in-command of Squadron C of the Royal Scots Greys, the Duke of Kent, a captain at 27, picked up another job: Officer in Charge of Go-Karts. But the duke, a cousin...