Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither the Army (with Nike-Zeus) nor the Air Force (with its Wizard anti-missile project) has yet drawn complete plans or even formulated solid concepts for countering ballistic missiles. Far more demanding than the anti-missile itself is development of the fully integrated and highly automatic system required-in the limited time available -to detect an ICBM on its way. track it, predict its trajectory and, at the proper instant, launch an intercept missile with nuclear or thermonuclear warhead. And what is the proper instant? When the missile is still in outer space? Or after it has slowed within...
Neither the Nike-Zeus nor the Wizard system can yet handle these problems, even on paper. But the Army, desperate for a shining new missile to fit its honored scabbard, is willing to try to handle them -in the papers...
Convinced of Barti's "satanic devilish plot" by Barzilai's guilelessness and by God Almighty's letters (which proved to have been composed on Barti's typewriter), the court last week sentenced the wizard of Akir to 18 months in jail. Mourned the man who would be king of the Jews: "I'm not sore about the loss of the money, and I don't feel the messianic call any more, but I am really sorry that I'm not the Messiah...
Confirming unofficial reports that the Wizard is on the drawing boards, General Thomas D. White, Air Force chief of staff, described it as a defense against enemy missiles fired from other continents...
WASHINGTON, Nov, 29--The Air Force announced today it is at work on a new weapon of the future--an antimissile missile called the Wizard...