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...Southern Democrats on the Rules Committee to help report out a bill which has a better than even chance of passage before a full House. Surely, in a land with plenty of plenty, enough can be spared for a community service program which costs one eighth of one Titan inter-continental ballistic missile...
...atmospheric testing, would prevent the U.S. from developing a 100-megaton bomb, told the Senators that without any testing the U.S. "can develop a warhead with a yield of 50 to 60 megatons for a B-52 delivery," and with underground tests could develop "a 35-megaton warhead for Titan...
...solid-fuel rockets can be increased in size much more easily than engines that burn liquids. Solid fuels, in fact, have been the backbone of U.S. military missile power ever since the success of Polaris and Minuteman. Built for the Air Force, the U.A.C. 120-incher is part of Titan III, which will consist of Martin Marietta Corp.'s liquid-fueled Titan II rocket, already operational, with two of the new solid-fuel boosters to help it into space with 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
...maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...