Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force insists, fairly well above the range of effective interception. Four new jet engines, hanging beneath the wingtips, were designed to give it a spurt over the target to at least 435 miles an hour. It can carry a bomb load equal to 30 B173 at extreme range, or four...
...congressional committee. "But I do not think whether it can or cannot be shot down enters into this controversy at all . . . The thing that I am concerned about is whether the proper number of B-365 in the proper tactical disposition can penetrate enemy defenses and destroy a target with acceptable losses to ourselves, and I believe the B-36 can do this job . . . I expect that if I am called upon to fight I will order my crews out in those airplanes, and I expect to be in the first one myself...
...thing that most worried LeMay and his command was the possibility that their outfit could be crippled before it ever got orders to strike back. LeMay has a hunch that SAC itself offers a more tempting initial target for an all-out Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay...
...otherwise humdrum U.N. week (see above), China's Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu, a distinguished history professor and "scholar in government" (Ph.D. from Columbia), delivered an arresting speech -in effect a lecture in history that none of Tsiang's colleagues would soon forget. The historian's target was a propaganda cliche interminably used by the Russians (and by a lot of Americans who should know better): "U.S. imperialism...
During 23 years as Dean of London's St. Paul's, Dr. William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing) had blazed away at many a plump and unsuspecting target. His massive pulpit barrages against smug optimism earned him the nickname of "the Gloomy Dean," and his 31 books won him a reputation as "the most formidable literary dean since Swift." Last week, 16 years and eight books after his retirement, it was evident that 90-year-old Dean Inge had not yet run out of ammunition. In Cambridge for a meeting of Britain's Modern Churchman...