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...John over White Sands, N. Mex. last month. In the first known kill of a ballistic missile, the two birds collided 1½ miles up at a combined speed of 2,000 m.p.h. Though a far cry from the Army's goal of perfecting a nuclear-tipped Nike-Zeus missile system capable of intercepting 16,000 m.p.h. ICBMs at 100-mile altitudes, the Hawk tests dispelled doubt that "a bullet could hit a bullet," gave new ammunition to the Army in its campaign to pry loose $137 million in Nike-Zeus funding now being withheld by the Budget Bureau...
...still has a probable lead in nuclear weapons technology, but the nation's nuclear arsenal can stand plenty of improvement, particularly in the area of cleaner bombs and small tactical weapons. Important programs are needed in the field of miniaturization to develop warheads for the Nike-Zeus antimissile, for the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman ICBMs-all of which means nuclear testing...
...Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army Chief of Staff, said he did not plan to contest a recent Budget Bureau decision to withhold $137 million in Army funds for the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile...
...have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones, in their familiar red fezzes and frilled skirts, were drawn up to watch Ike lay a wreath...
...Army's Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile, a weapons system that would cost a record $13.5 billion to become effectively operational, drags along on $300 million year-to-year handouts. Promoted by Army as a solution to the near-impossible anti-missile defense role, Nike-Zeus gets neither the funds necessary for speedup nor the kill order recommended by its critics. One factor: the Pentagon, seldom free to make decisions that are purely military, fears the panic and congressional uproar that would be set off by admission that the U.S. owns no hopeful anti-missile missile...