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Fight Against Fat. In the defense field, AMF is the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and Atlas ICBMs, has also developed the rail-car launching system for the solid-fueled Minuteman ICBM...
...doing reasonably well in military space craft. The solid-fuel Minuteman proved long ago that it can take off handily from an underground silo; last week a two-stage, 110-ton liquid-fuel Titan also took off from a silo. Pre ceded by a burst of flame, it roared out of a 146-ft. concrete-lined hole at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Since it carried a dummy second stage, it flew for only 140 seconds before it was deliberately "destructed" by radio command. But it proved that even comparatively tender liquid-fuel rockets, which are heavy weight lifters...
These were among the first widespread showings of a new industrial training system that animates still pictures by a new use of polarized light. Industry and government are already using the system for everything from showing how the new Bulova electronic watch operates to training workers to launch a Titan missile from an underground base. F. P. Copper, of General Electric's light military electronics division, says of the animating process: "It's terrific...
A.M.F. bought a Technamated training program to teach employees the workings of the underground silos that the company is building for the Titan. Explains Technical Animation's President Stanley L. Schwartz, 41: "They had to show why a valve is the right valve before the guy actually got to operate it." On three separate screens, trainees see a cross section of the whole silo, a breakdown of each of its operating segments, and what they do in action...
...President gets credit for new doctrine, McNamara will catch most of the blame for drastic cuts he has ordered in existing programs. Among them: curtailment of the liquid-fueled, obsolescent Titan ICBM and "low reliability" Snark missiles and a virtual end to the development of the Air Force's cherished Mach 3 bomber of the future, North American's B-70, as well as the perennially experimental nuclear airplane. These slashes are sure to bring cries of anguish from pressure groups (both in and out of the Pentagon) and contractors, but none will be so loud or perhaps...