Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Schedules & Warheads. Designed around cumbersome liquid-fueled engines, Blue Streak can only be shot from complex fixed bases. As evidenced by this winter's 7,700-mile Pacific shoot, Russian rockets have proved accurate enough to knock them all out with a single barrage. What Britain needs is a highly mobile missile force that can retaliate from submarines or surface ships, railroad flatcars or truck trailers. And that is precisely what the U.S., but not Britain, can develop in time. The solid-fueled Polaris is well ahead of schedule, will be ready by 1961. Skybolt will take longer...
...mission. In the age of missilery and megatons, the problem is even more complex-and costly. To create the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile system would cost the U.S. an estimated $14 billion-more than the entire Atlas program-and then no one could dream that it would knock out every nuclear-nosed missile. Last week the Army's chief of staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer, sadly surrendered hope of prying loose $137 million in Nike-Zeus funding now bottled up by the Budget Bureau (although Nike-Zeus is still in the budget for $324 million of research and development...
...Never a standout at Syracuse University, Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John McGill, 23, turned the 200-yd. medley in 2:03.3 to knock 7.8 sec. off his best pre-meet time and set an A.A.U. championship record. Cracked McGill: "I'm as surprised as anyone...
...fierce struggle between two would-be nominees. Former Secretary of State Melvyn Douglas is urbane, intellectual and endowed with scruples; Senator Frank Lovejoy is self-made, self-obsessed and swollen with ambition. When a tough old pro of an ex-President rejects the role of kingmaker, Lovejoy plans to knock out Douglas by reviving a forgotten mental breakdown; and if Douglas will stoop, he in turn can bring up an old Army scandal...
...This won't be a knock-knock-knock column," promised Robinson at the very outset-whereupon he started spraying his knocks to all fields. Sometimes he dismays even the Post, as when he declared that he might be compelled to support Republican Richard Nixon for President if the Democrats failed to nominate a staunch civil rights candidate...