Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BMEWS, locked into existing U.S. radar chains, including the $600 million DEW line across North Canada-Alaska, will instantaneously feed its data on the incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental...
...world figure-skating championships in Colorado Springs, two-time Champion David Jenkins, 22, fell behind in the compulsory figures but recouped with a fine free-skating performance to keep his title. The women's division was no contest at all for green-eyed Carol Heiss, 19, of Ozone Park, N.Y., who romped off with her fourth straight championship, hinted later that she might retire soon from competition...
...Robert W. Kerr, 55, vice president of American Machine & Foundry, moved to Penn-Texas as vice president and boss of all its subsidiaries, including Fairbanks, Morse and Toolmaker Pratt & Whitney. Colorado-born Bob Kerr graduated from U.C.L.A. ('27), spent his early years as a reporter on the Los Angeles Examiner, went into the tool industry in 1938, became president of Toledo's Bingham-Herbrand Corp. before moving to American Machine & Foundry. Kerr and President Alfons Landa hope to disassociate Penn-Texas from the poor publicity brought on by the fight to oust Former Chairman Leopold Silberstein by changing...
...refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff, 5½-day-a-week curriculum for the boy, taught all the courses themselves except German. They are well enough qualified to do so; they are college graduates, and Mary Krai has held teaching certificates from Nebraska and Colorado. Her 35-year-old husband was trained as a chemist, now heads the Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing Co.'s applied mathematics & statistics department...
...came early in the afternoon of the ninth, when an observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...