Word: titan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they found is Arkansas-born Brigadier General Carroll Dunn, 49, currently deputy chief of staff for the Eighth Army, who will arrive there next week. A professional engineer (University of Illinois, '38), he supervised construction of the first early-warning system in Greenland, the Titan II missile sites and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's vast new Houston headquarters. Dunn will now be McNamara's straw boss in charge of some $1 billion worth of work and 40,000 military and civilian engineers. It will be his toughest assignment...
...himself weakening the U.S. deterrent by an overreliance on missiles. No, said McNamara: by the time the B-58s and older-model B-52s are scrapped, the U.S. will still have 255 late-model B-52s and 210 of the planned FB-111s-plus 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan II missiles in hardened sites, and 656 Polaris missiles in 41 floating platforms. One-fifth of this force, said McNamara, could rain "assured destruction" on both Russia and China-even if the other four-fifths were knocked out by a surprise attack...
Died. Kaufman Thuma Keller, 80, titan of the auto industry for 21 years as president (1935-50), then chairman (1950-56) of Chrysler Corp.; of a heart attack; in London. "K.T." always referred to himself as "a machinist by trade," and so he was, winning Chrysler a reputation for superior engineering although he had never won a degree, increasing annual production to 1,000,000 cars by 1949 and making the company the nation's No. 3 automaker. At the start of World War II he was asked if Chrysler could make tanks. "Sure," answered K.T., "when...
...Delicate Balance. On the day of the successful rendezvous, however, the fog that had shrouded Cape Kennedy during the night-and the cloud that had hovered over Gemini 6 even longer -suddenly blew away. "For the third time, go," exulted Schirra just before the Titan II left the pad in a launch that was as close to perfect as any in all the Cape's history...
...powerful Titan II rocket swiftly shoved Gemini 6 into an elliptical orbit that dipped as close to earth as 100 miles (perigee) and swung as far away as 161 miles (apogee). The average velocity was 17,535 m.p.h., only 8 m.p.h. slower than planned. Even more important, a maneuver of Gemini 6's second-stage launch rocket had placed the capsule in an orbital plane that nearly coincided with Gemini 7's; its path was almost directly below that of Gemini 7, slanting away at an angle of less than one-tenth...