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Most de luxe nature-lovers mount the installation in a three-quarter ton truck, which costs about $2,200, and may also include the extra conveniences of a special axle for fast highway travel, heavy duty springs and a 110-volt, engine-operated generator powerful enough to run a TV set. Units may be removed from the truck, though the more elaborate ones are permanent fixtures. Automakers expect to sell 75,000 trucks for this purpose in 1964, predict that there will be 500,000 on the road...
Actually, Goldwater's estimate had some basis in fact-as far as it went. Goldwater figures that the U.S. Strategic Air Command's estimated 1,080 first-line bombers can carry 24-mega-ton bombs, or, 25,920 megatons of destructive power. He places total megaton capability of U.S. missiles at 2,650. Goldwater assumes that all but about 50 of the SAC planes will have been phased out by the mid-'70s. From Pentagon announcements, furthermore, Goldwater researchers place the mid-'70s missile force at 1,000 Minuteman and 656 Polaris missiles, each capable...
...company engineers are building a $12 million dam in Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor in search of oil and minerals, and perfecting an emergency system that will use solid-propellant gas generators to expel water from a disabled submarine's ballast tanks, enabling...
...admiral wasted no time. Swiftly he sent orders to his CINCPAC headquarters: the Maddox will stay in the gulf-and a destroyer, the 2,850-ton Turner Joy, then cruising in the South China Sea, will join her at once...
...myriad "political parties" (more than 60 at last count) to come up with a program, and to pacify discontented generals and colonels. His nominal chief of state. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, has been unhappy and uncooperative. Latest dissident is one of Khanh's three Vice Premiers, Nguyen Ton Hoan. leader of the nationalist Dai Viet party, who recently complained of "too much interference from Khanh and those around him." As last week began, the coup rumors grew to a new crescendo. But with the U.S. blow at North Viet Nam the reports faded, and Khanh appeared at least...