Power’s SAC shown as modern deterrent force
Bob Considine tours Strategic Air Command at Offutt AFB Nebraska. General Thomas Power praises crews and explains changes in strategy including Joint Strategic Target Planning, integrated forces, airborne command posts, Reflex overseas basing, and Minuteman ICBMs enabling rapid, concentrated retaliation.
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SACs hidden underground command posts and red phone system
An observer tours SAC facilities showing buried command centers with subways of power wells and blast doors, the Red telephone, Look Glass links, and the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Officials describe rapid readiness and a forthcoming 465 L command and control system from IEC Paramus to enhance deterrence.
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Looking Glass
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Col. Kille
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Air Force
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Alaska
Greenland
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Nebraska Plain
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Pole
Mexico
International Electric Corporation
Paramus
N.J
Roosevelt urges preparedness and UN support in mixed speech
Eleanor Roosevelt discusses Adlai Stevenson declining a Senate run and remains UN focused. She reflects on Pearl Harbor lessons, urges resilience, and notes Volunteers for International Development engaging in U N related aid with 300 volunteers on file and prior requests from 53 positions.
Pearl Harbor Lessons For Global Service
The piece urges lasting memory of Pearl Harbor lessons and highlights the value of trained personnel in development work. It cites Dr Max of MIT praising VID’s role in pairing service spirit with host country self help aims while noting humor and ridicule at an Arab UN speech and advising calm, factual rebuttal.
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Pearl Harbor
Max
Center Forternational Studies
Alhcatensetts Institute of Technology
U.N
Does a computer actually think or just calculate
Washington UPI reports at a national computer conference debate whether machines can truly think or merely perform calculations. Experts cite brain teasers and chess teaching by humans improving machine capability, while others predict future programs that translate languages and even compose original music comparable to Beethoven or Bach.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
East Berlin defect exposes HVA spy network and school
Fulton Lewis reports Guenter Maennel a East Berlin HVA officer defecting to the West revealing an HVA unit led by Brigadier Markus Wolf with over 500 staff. The State Department notes the East Berlin School for Spies trains about 40 master spies annually in a one year program.
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Guenter Maennel
Hauptverwaltung Fuer Aufklaerung
HVA
East Berlin
Red
Markus Wolf
State Department
Rudi Bartonek
Willy Woehl
Defector Reveals East Berlin Spy School Curriculum
A defector describes a school in East Berlin training Russian spies. Subjects include audio surveillance and modern electronics, clandestine drops, and covert photography. Students study etiquette and culture, English, driving, and combat, then travel to West Germany to scout targets. Since 1955 about 120 master spies were trained, with over 18,000 arrests of spies in West Germany in eight years.
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East Berlin
West Germany
Rutgers Football Dilemma In Rutgers Education First
Rutgers University faces a clash between football intensity and scholarship values as it ends the undefeated run for the season. Captain Alex Kroll, likely All Eastern and Phi Beta Kappa, exemplifies the balance between athletics and academics while officials argue big time football conflicts with the school’s educational philosophy.
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Atlanta
Rutgers University
Rutgers
Alex Kroll
Phi Beta Kappa
National Honor Fraternity
Kroll
George A. Kramer
Rutgers Era Spurs Debate on Football and Academics
A Rutgers season spurs a broader debate on big time football. Administrators argue that high pressure, cash big-stadium programs threaten academic values. Some call for new conferences excluding football powers to restore balance and common sense.
Know Your America Know Your America question
The Declaration states that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed and that the people have a right to alter or abolish government when that consent is violated and the government becomes destructive. The answer reflects that principle and its trigger by failed legitimate authority.
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