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Some time in 1962 will come the moment of truth: a real Atlas will be fired toward Kwajalein from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. If all goes according to plan, the speeding speck in space will be detected many hundred miles away, and its course will be calculated. A Nike Zeus rocket will rise from the island to meet the Atlas far above the atmosphere. Neither the invading nor the defending rocket will carry genuine nuclear warheads (no one on Kwajalein wants a dose of peacetime fallout), but the Nike Zeus will be credited with a theoretical kill...
...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, can take off from a "hard" base that promises resistance...
...newspapers, in other words, should not be asked to do anything that will prevent them from shattering the antique concept of non-partisan support of the Administration's foreign policy. The concept is no less dangerous because it is so old; Senator Vandenberg's aims no longer seem to apply. In a curious way the government has helped perpetuate the idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined...
...apprentice electrician at Cape Canaveral drew $748 a week. The average weekly wage for electricians at Vandenberg Air Force Base...
...Unskilled laborers at Vandenberg earn as much as $287 weekly, truck drivers as much as $324, elevator operators as much as $360, and warehouse clerks as much...