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...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...
...October, when an Agena rendezvous rocket "backfired" and disintegrated in space, Schirra and Stafford were left sitting in Gemini 6 atop a Titan II on a Cape Kennedy launch pad. They were all dressed up with no place to go. Last week their first attempt to launch was frustrated when a monitoring-cable plug was accidentally jarred loose from the Titan II's tail, causing an automatic shutdown of its engines only two seconds before liftoff. Later investigation disclosed that the engines would have shut down anyway-on either of the first two launching attempts. Workmen had forgotten...
...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...