Word: eniwetok
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...borders, and at any time the U.S. can seal off any area from observers if it chooses. In effect, Micronesia is a military reservation. The U.S. maintains powerful naval forces along its western front. A missile range has been set up in the empty spaces between islands farther east. Eniwetok and Bikini served as the site of nuclear tests. But as a self-professed champion of anticolonialism, the U.S. has always been rather embarrassed about its island wards...
...James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
...propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam to Japan. The only long-legged, modern transport in Tunner's stable is the turboprop C-133 Cargomaster, of which MATS counts a mere 29, with another 20 on order...
...Meadowbrook Club, got out and asked: "Where are the horses?" He served for close to three years as commander of the Tactical Air Command, and in 1949-51 was top military commander of the crucial Operation Greenhouse, in which the U.S. exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok. In 1951, at age 47, Lieut. General Quesada retired. He worked for a while at California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (vice president of the missile-systems division), but quit in a row over policy. When Ike called him to Washington, Quesada was dabbling successfully in investments with space-age inventors...
...slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...