At the beginning of the 1979 film, The Double McGuffin starring Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy, narrator Orson Welles informs the movie audience a McGuffin is an object that serves as the focal point of the plot in the thriller genre. This particular film had two such objects — a suitcase of money and a severed hand – leading to the prevention of a political assassination.
Meanwhile, back at the Space and Missile Systems Center . . . nothing dramatic as a movie plot took place. Instead, a couple of leadership changes occurred Aug. 17 within two of SMC’s Directorates: the Operationally Responsive Space Office and the Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, both located at Kirtland AFB.
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