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Cheap Bird. Known in the Air Force as the "poor man's missile." the Minuteman is a bird of a different feather from the familiar Titan and Atlas intercontinental missiles. As "first generation" weapons, both the Titan and Atlas burn highly volatile liquid fuels that require a trouble-plagued network of pumps and pipes. Fueling and firing the Titan and Atlas is an intricate business-many experts doubt that they would ever get off the pad with just 15 minutes' warning. In contrast, the Minuteman burns a solid, rubberlike fuel developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. Once the Minuteman...
American Machine & Foundry Co., more widely known for its automatically controlled bowling Pinspotters, is in aerospace with launch site mechanisms for Titan I, Atlas and Minuteman plus a projected moon wagon which will travel on wire brushes...
...suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes in the northern California town of Chico-blandly ignoring the fact that a Titan missile pad, which would presumably be a prime Soviet target, was less than seven miles from their sanctuary...
...press conference, the bright-eyed, firm-lipped, 85-year-old titan blandly assured reporters that his party had "sound wood and good roots" (a judgment that applies equally to Adenauer, who acts a young 65). The Christian Democrats, he deadpanned, had merely "slipped back to our success of 1953," when they also had exactly 243 seats. Said he: "When one party has been leading the country for twelve years, naturally it could not fulfill all wishes. Thus a certain dissatisfaction arises...
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from...