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...airfield in northeast Formosa, men of a U.S. air base squadron, only ten days out of Johnston Island, wearily completed construction of an electrified tent city. Within revetments nearby stood stubby, missilelike F-104 Starfighters, the world's fastest (1,400 miles an hour) operational aircraft. Never before deployed outside the U.S., the Starfighters were knocked down and flown into Formosa unassembled two weeks ago; last week they were already flying over the Formosa Strait. Said one pilot: "It must have scared the pants off the Reds when they saw this bird move across their radar screens the first...
...PETER A. JOHNSTON Cincinnati...
After weeks of agonizing difficulties, the U.S. had a big week in missilery. On Johnston Island, 700 miles southwest of Hawaii, one morning the sky blossomed red when the Army's reliable Redstone took a nuclear warhead up an estimated 100 miles and exploded it in the thin air on space's edge-a high-altitude test, say intelligence reports, that came ten months behind a similar U.S.S.R. shot in the crucial race for the anti-bomber and antimissile missile (see SCIENCE). Next day Air Force missilemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla. sent their mightiest beast...
...flash was the explosion of a nuclear weapon over Johnston Island, 700 miles from Honolulu. Unquestionably, it was the highest ever exploded by the U.S. To be seen direct in Honolulu, it must have occurred many miles above the earth, and estimates put it as high as 100 miles. The AEC announced only: "the test detonation of a nuclear warhead missile." Speculation was that the warhead had been hurled aloft by the Army's Redstone missile, providing Hawaii with a preview of what the explosion will look like when an anti-missile attacks an invading missile...
...Anthony Myers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Stephen November, Economics; David Reiss, Psychology; George Nicholas Rogentine, Jr., Biochemical Sciences; Michael Paul Rogin, Government; George Michael Rossman, Engineering and Applied Physics; Richard Lewis Roth, Mathematics; David Savitz, Chemistry; Michael Charles Senturia, Music; Thomas Jack Shankland, Engineering and Applied Physics; Lynn Johnston Taylor, Chemistry and Physics; Marshall Alan Wolf, Chemistry; Michael Wortis, Physics; Richard Philip Zimon, Biology...