In Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the...
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