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Fast & Simple. Minuteman is the weapons system that, with the Navy's Polaris submarines, is making the so-called "missile gap" a real missile gap-favoring the West. Within a year, Montana will have 150 Minutemen in place. Another 650 have been authorized for South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri and Wyoming. Minutemen will roll like cigars off production lines until some 1,500 are deployed, far outnumbering the U.S.'s programmed 126 Atlas missiles and 108 Titans...
...Minuteman has arrived a year ahead of its original schedule, speeded by Air Force decisions in 1959, when there were widespread charges that an unfavorable missile gap did indeed exist. Although the speedup seemed "absolutely impossible" to Air Force brass, it was accomplished mainly by the drive, patience, and, as one colleague puts it, the "damn genius" of Brigadier General Sam Phillips, Minuteman program director and, at 41, one of the youngest generals in the Air Force...
...only real running weakness is at 600 yards, where sophs Gage McAfee and Lee Parker are the best bets to fill in the gap...
...when, in an effort to break a string of defeats, Professional Cricketer Len Hutton, a stonemason's son, was chosen to captain England in the Test Match with Australia. Tradition got additional body blows when Hutton and another Player were knighted by the Queen. Recently the gap between cricketers has become increasingly absurd, as it developed that Gentlemen were making more money out of the game than were the Players. Ted Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing...
...minutes of the third quarter, and then began to freeze the ball. For four minutes this strategy--which had wrecked the Crimson against Amherst Saturday night--was successful. But three long jump shots by Gene Augustine, Pete Kelley, and Denny Lynch, combined with some sterling defensive play, whittled the gap to three points with 9:05 remaining in the contest...