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Along with the endless daily flow of documents and visitors and decisions, plus weekly policy sessions of the Cabinet and the National Security Council, the year end brings to the presidency a heavy seasonal load: 1) drawing up the Administration's legislative program for the congressional session ahead, 2) preparing the massive federal budget for the coming fiscal year, 3) drafting January's State of the Union, budget and economic messages, and 4) briefing congressional leaders in advance on the Administration's planned requests for legislation and appropriations. In December 1957, with Sputnik still orbiting...
That click sent Richard Milhous Nixon, 44, into a week unique in the history of U.S. Vice Presidents. Twice before, Dwight Eisenhower had fallen suddenly ill, and twice before, Nixon had worked as a key member of the Administration team that picked up the load as best it could. But never before had Nixon or any other Vice President emerged so clearly as a leader during presidential illness...
Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
Agenda. Flying into the U.S. with his two sons and a group of other dignitaries, Mohammed packed a load of gifts for such individuals as President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles...
...Heat. Both skip and glide have their partisans. Dr. A. J. Eggers Jr. of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is a glide man. He figures that both skip and glide missiles are more efficient load-carriers for long ranges than ballistic missiles are. but he thinks that skip missiles will get too much heating and jolting during their violent acrobatics. Glide missiles will have to contend with heat only, and he thinks they can take it. When they speed through the high atmosphere toward a target 5,000 miles away, the temperature of their skin may reach about...