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...only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons are to be kept on hand in potential trouble areas...
...junior members of Russia's U.N. delegation debarked and an official of Aeroflot, Russia's civil airline, made a pitch for regular flights between the two countries, cameramen clicked away at the glistening TU-IO4A (a 70-seat civilian modification of the Badger medium bomber), which makes daily passenger runs between Moscow and Prague. Later newsmen and aviation experts clambered aboard for a firsthand look at the only type of jetliner in passenger use since the decommissioning of Britain's flawed Comets in 1954. Their assessment: good, but in some ways surprisingly crude...
Cutback. Half the metal in North American's Navaho missile was to be titanium; Republic built the all-titanium XF-103 experimental fighter. But both projects were scrubbed in recent defense cutbacks. Production of Boeing's B-52 bomber, whose Pratt & Whitney J57 engine took more than 50% of all titanium mill output last year, was stretched out. To compound the trouble, the Government cut stockpile buying to a trickle...
...which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...
With the DEW line in operation-four hours as the jet bomber flies from Toronto, New York and Chicago-the most important gap is closed in the radar warning system strung across the top and down both sides of the continent. In case of attack, the DEW line will give a U.S. retaliatory force time to take to the air, and Airmen Partridge and Slemon will look to two southerly radar systems to track the invaders: the $200 million Canadian-built Mid-Canada line, due to start operating by summer's end, and the Pinetree Aircraft Control and Warning...