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From Berkeley, Kennedy flew to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, 250 miles to the south, for a personal inspection of the facilities that help make his optimism possible-U.S. retaliatory missile power. Standing on a coastal hill, he watched an Atlas missile soar out over the Pacific, learned later that it had sped 5,000 miles downrange, landing within a mile of its target. It was the first time that he had seen an ICBM fired. Then, in the relaxing atmosphere of California's Palm Springs area, where he was a weekend guest at Bing Crosby...
...reasonably expect some test failures in weeks to come. But Minuteman's progress to date is so encouraging that final-phase preparations are under way for the moment when it will become an operational part of the U.S. arsenal. Last week airmen and officers at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base were being trained to fire Minutemen. Slogging through knee-deep snow, workmen in Montana were well along on the project of digging 150 silo missile sites that will be scattered like giant gopher holes across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead...
...Appropriations Committee (which he chaired during four sessions of Congress), a merciless money trimmer. But his conservatism applied mostly to domestic matters. Before World War II, he fought hard for Lend-Lease and increased military appropriations; after the war, he joined with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to back the Marshall Plan...
Launched Nov. 12, 1960, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, the satellite encountered radiation from an intense solar flare within a few hours. The capsule from the satellite was recovered off Hawaii two days later. The solar flare--a vast magnetic storm or explosion on the sun's surface--had caused a great increase in the amount of tritium in the earth's upper atmosphere...
...statements touched off an impassioned and bitter national debate. At first, public sentiment favored Hiss, for the case seemed to turn solely on the word of a confessed Communist agent determined to destroy a man who had been the trusted colleague of such officials as the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg and former Secretaries of State Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Most of the U.S. was still reluctant to believe that Communism could have penetrated the Federal Government. Then, bit by bit-as if hesitating to reveal the extent of the conspiracy and his own involvement-Chambers produced...