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...climate the Defense Department announced a decision as grave as any that Neil McElroy has yet made: the vast, complex job of building a weapons system to intercept and destroy an attacking missile will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Backing Away? | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE U.S. MISSILE PROGRAM | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...Army's R. & D. chief, Gavin bristled with new ideas that he hoped would put the service into the space business; he got the Nike program into the field, helped the Army keep for a while its continental defense mission. He became the biggest inspiration for the Army's research work in missiles, protected the missilemakers at the Army's Huntsville Arsenal while they developed the Jupiter C without formal Pentagon authorization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Exit Fighter | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Author Shulman plants a Nike missile base in Putnam's Landing, Fairfield County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Neither the Nike-Zeus nor the Wizard system can yet handle these problems, even on paper. But the Army, desperate for a shining new missile to fit its honored scabbard, is willing to try to handle them -in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Something for a Scabbard | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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