Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Behind the politicking of the missile-gap debate that sputtered in Washington last week lay some troubling nonpolitical questions: Will the missile gap mean a power gap? What dangers will the missile gap bring? Does the Administration's defense program provide for adequate preparations to cope with those dangers...
...provide for adequate security during its own time span-July 1960 through June 1961-but that it fails to provide an adequate safety margin for the years beyond that. And the complexity of military technology in the missile age, the long "lead time" between a decision to undertake a program and the translation of the decision into ready-for-use hardware, requires that the defense budget for any year take account of the foreseeable problems and perils of the future...
...Staff, General Thomas D. White, want to start placing orders for North American Aviation Inc.'s B70 bomber, designed to fly at three times the speed of sound. In its money requests for fiscal 1961, the Air Force asked for $464 million to get started on a B70 program. The Administration slashed the request to $70 million, which will buy two militarily worthless prototype...
...hopes for Minuteman is that it will prove feasible to launch the bird from moving cars traveling back and forth on the nation's railway system, but research into this possibility is barely getting started under a meager $1,000,000 contract. Needed: a speedup in the Minuteman program, possibly a step-up in production of Polaris subs...
...state needs a $333 million "minimum" capital-improvement program (which calls for $80 million in state funds, the balance in matching federal funds). But if such a program is attempted, the 1966 deficit will go to $72 million...