Word: vulcan
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Skybolt was. indeed, dead. Last week the Pentagon formally canceled production contracts for the 1,000-mile missile, which Great Britain had planned to adapt to its Vulcan II bombers, and the U.S. Air Force had counted on to prolong the life of its B-52s. Said Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric: "The test did not conclusively demonstrate the capacity of the missile to achieve the target accuracy for which the Skybolt system was designed...
...with a nuclear warhead aimed at targets up to 1,000 miles away. So far, the U.S. has spent or committed $657 million to develop Skybolt for use with the Strategic Air Command's B-52 bomber. And Britain has spent $25 million to adapt its otherwise obsolescent Vulcan II bomber to Skybolt...
...whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House...
Little Fuss. All qualified observers agreed: the Skybolt-B-52 combination makes a splendid weapon. (In Britain, even before last week's test, R.A.F. pilots were itching to strap the rockets under the wings of their Vulcan bombers.) A combat-ready B-52 will carry four Sky-bolts under its wings, each armed with a nuclear warhead that will make it as devastating as the submarine-borne Polaris missiles that are now in service. Both in eventual impact and versatility on the way to its target, Skybolt is an impressive testament to nuclear age technology...
...radarscopes of distant destroyers and aircraft, of early-warning stations from the Canadian Arctic and Alaska to towers planted deep in Atlantic waters, appeared a multitude of bogey blips. They were caused by about 250 Strategic Air Command B-478, B-528 and refueling tankers, along with Vulcan bombers of Britain's Royal Air Force. Many of these planes were homebound from foreign bases; others had slipped from their North American stations to turn around over the Pacific and Atlantic and simulate an enemy strike...