Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net, designed to spot incoming enemy bombers for Bomarc and other antiaircraft weapons, has already cost $1.2 billion, is not yet fully operational. In the 1961 budget, SAGE requests additional funds to harden (encase in concrete) some of its installations, presumably against missile blows, although SAGE itself will be useless in the missile...
...when many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after a year of small-town orchestra conducting, he found that his technique was rusty...
...from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine gun and 40-mm. antiaircraft fire. The wild evening of gunplay killed two Cubans and wounded 48. After that, in frenzied need of a scapegoat, he inevitably launched a TV tirade against the U.S., charging that Havana had been bombed. He had to reach back in history to find a match for the infamy: "This...
...into the circle made short work of that, and for 20 minutes-long for a jet battle -the planes whirled in a melee ranging from 40,000 ft. all the way down to the sea. When it was all over, four MIGs were down, including one drawn into Nationalist antiaircraft fire from the White Dog Islands. The jubilant Nationalist pilots flew home with all eight Sabre jets undamaged...
Attempting to settle one of the Pentagon's bitterest interservice quarrels, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy last week outlined a "master plan" for U.S. continental air defense. What it amounted to was a shaky compromise between rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...