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Aten's tale, as ghost-written by professional author Arthur Orrmont, carries the reader through the early, swashbuckling advances of the White cossacks and the supporting British fighter squadron with which Aten flew. His book catches the enthusiasm which swept across the anti-Communist armies and which made the toast "Christmas in Moscow" a Cossack watchword. And finally, the dream shattered and the Communist counter-offensive moving forward irrevocably, Aten's narrative makes up the ghastly retreat to the Black Sea and the eventual evacuation of Allied forces from under the guns of the Bolshevik advance guard...
Purrs of Power. Typical among the missile installations is Complex 2-A, 725th Strategic Missile Squadron, near Lowry Air Force Base. The complex lies on an abandoned World War II practice bombing range. The land is lonely and peaceful, with the snow-tipped Rockies looming 30 miles away. The only external evidence of an underground fortress is an entrance portal, the ground-level doors over three Titan I silos, and silos containing 100-ft.-long radio antennas that rise along with the missiles and guide them on their way. At the concreted entrance tower, 13 steps spiral downward...
Missile Deterrent. The U.S. will continue to rely on liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan intercontinental missiles. The bill will complete the Air Force's 13-squadron Atlas program (with a total of 135 missiles), allow for twelve squadrons of Titans (with a total of 108 missiles). But the future of strategic deterrence clearly belongs to two solid-fuel missiles: the Navy's submarine-carried Polaris, and the Air Force's Minuteman, which can be fired from concrete "silos" buried in the ground, eventually will also be carried on special trains roaming at random through...
...saga goes back to 1793, when a debonair Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard ascended from the yard of Philadelphia's Walnut Street prison in a balloon, accompanied by a small, whimpering dog. While President George Washington and hundreds of Philadelphians craned their necks in amazement, Blanchard panicked a squadron of pigeons and drifted nonchalantly out of sight. After 46 minutes in the air, he plopped down in a woodland 15 miles away and placated the scared natives with wine...
...determined to disentangle France quickly from Algeria. "The affair must be settled before the end of the year," he rumbled, because "after that, we must concern ourselves with Europe." He obviously had an eye on whatever crisis Khrushchev was hatching. Later in the week it was announced that a squadron of 72 jets will return to France from Algeria this month, to be followed by two armored divisions...