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...plus several Tactical Air Command (TAC) bases. The SAC planes are B-47s with a range of 4,000 miles; 7,200-mile B-52s are sometimes deployed overseas temporarily, but most B-52s are based within the U.S. The U.S. missile force in Britain consists of some 60 Thor IRBMs under dual U.S.- British control. The U.S. has notified Britain that the missiles will be withdrawn next year. At Holy Loch, in Scotland, the Navy has its only foreign Polaris station...
...total of 25,486 P-51 fighters and B-25 bombers. In later years, Kindelberger switched to the space race, regrouping his company into six divisions that pulled out, among other rabbits, the X-15 rocket plane, a $2 billion contract to build the Apollo moonship, hundreds of Thor and Atlas missile engines...
...Anselmo, Calif., Festival Theater: Christopher Fry's early, little known but charming play about pagan Britain, Thor, with Angels...
Three minutes after the Thor rocket made its predawn blastoff from Cape Canaveral, a new star flared bright yellow across the dark sky. Tiny by standard star measurements, the man-made balloon of plastic and aluminum was 135 ft. in diameter-tall as a 13-story building, and large enough to be seen by the unaided...
...failed last week in its second attempt to explode a nuclear test at high altitude over Johnston Island in the Pacific. Official reason for the flop: "a malfunction in the system." Since nuclear devices almost always explode as planned, the malfunction was probably in the Thor rocket on which the bomb was riding. Until other scapegoats are available, critics can blame 1) the haste with which rocket-launching equipment was thrown together on remote Johnston Island; 2) failure to use reliable solid-fuel rockets (Polaris or Minuteman) instead of the obsolescent Thor, which burns notoriously troublesome liquid oxygen...