Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' Page #4

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Heading right for Detroit.

Pretty cool about it, General.

My guess is a commercial airliner

is off course.

One minute to Fail Safe.

Damn thing's disappeared.

Where did it go?

Into the grass, Mr. Raskob.

Under our radar where we can't see it.

-What do we do now?

-Go to Condition Yellow.

Condition Yellow.

-Put our bombers up there, please.

-Yes, sir.

Our bombers are heading

for their Fail Safe points.

Thirty-seconds to Fail Safe.

Once they get there,

they'll orbit till we call them back.

-What are those other planes?

-Fighter support for the bombers.

It's also automatic

under these circumstances.

Twenty seconds to Fail Safe.

Nineteen, eighteen....

The early warning system indicates

it's not an air breather.

What the hell is that?

Jets create turbulence when they suck

in air through their engines.

We got a warning system

that can pick that up.

If the plane lost power, we couldn't

do that, even if we know it's there.

It could be a Russian rocket coming in

under our radar.

All groups at Fail Safe point.

Right on the money. I told you,

Mr. Raskob, our people are the best.

-How we doing, Jimmy?

-Everyone in orbit, sir.

Let's keep it there. Slow and easy.

So let's say Dr. King sits down

with the powers that be and he says:

''Mr. President, I want it to be equal''

and in a very polite way...

...the President says,

''Dr. King, I can't do it''.

As long as it's polite, sir.

Are you saying

because it's difficult don't try?

That's not what I'm saying. In the Army--

The Army's different. I'd take the Army.

There's a class system, too,

but it's based on seniority.

Let's do it that way.

Everyone in the country

will get paid equally by their age.

All men age 40 will make a better salary

than all men age 35.

What about women?

What about women?

What's happening now?

-Any word on identification?

-Not yet, sir.

What the hell's going on?

-Let's go to Condition Green.

-Condition Green.

Can you tell us why Condition Green?

No. Colonel, let's get our visitors

out of here.

-Gentlemen, please.

-The hell--

That's an order, Mr. Raskob.

The way I read the situation,

we're one minute away from going to war.

Unless you can get me back to my family,

I'm staying here to see what happens.

You really don't want to throw me

out of here.

There it is!

That's it, gentlemen.

I'm sorry we alarmed you.

Have all parties stand down.

Stand down. All parties stand down.

Stand down, Anderson.

Sergeant Anderson. Sergeant Collins.

You need to take a look at this.

We need a new indicator switch.

This one's faulty.

-Right, Chief.

-Put in the report that at 10:47 hours...

...we replaced a PK 30 indicator switch

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