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Seven Minutes to Hack. Harris lined up the target in the luminous cross hairs of his screen, threw two switches that opened the bomb bay and armed the load of 108 bombs. Over the radio, the impersonal voice of a SAC ground controller announced "seven minutes to 'hack' [bomb release point]." The count droned on until at hack, when Harris punched a black button and 30 tons of high explosives cascaded toward the ground more than 30,000 feet below us. There was no shock, no noise, no sight of explosions. Only the impersonal voice of the controller...
...Earlier this year, 50% of a B-52 mission load landed outside a target box and killed 43 friendly South Vietnamese. SAC says it was the only such incident in three years of bombing and claims 100% accuracy inside a target...
Planes even bigger than the C-5 seem certain to come. The Air Force and U.S. manufacturers are studying the possibility of constructing an aircraft capable of carrying a 1,000,000-lb. pay-load-nearly four times that of the C5. About the only factor limiting the size of future planes is the ability of existing airport facilities to handle them. In view of Lockheed's success in producing its huge bird, none of the foreseeable obstacles to even bigger planes seem insurmountable...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
...afternoon at the rambling summer house atop Minute Man Hill, which has an enormous veranda with a view of Long Island Sound when the sun breaks through the mists. Fortas kept busy scrubbing the winter's grit off the windows. Now and then, he would wheel a load of manure to his wife, Carolyn, who was working on the garden, soggy from the unseasonably heavy spring rains...