Word: 4a
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
Designated E-4A, the $117 million Doomsday jet is a 231-ft.-long, 425-ton behemoth - the heaviest flying machine anywhere. It is a converted Boeing 747 that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel...
Natural Sciences 4a, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," also holds lectures in overcrowded conditions. The enrollment for the course is 523, but Science Center B, where lectures are given, has a seating capacity of only...
...First, and foremost, is the celebrated Frisbee Factor, which, as all physics wonks know, is equal to the number of frisbees (genuine Wham-O's, no cheapie imitations allowed) that one spots floating in the Charles or caught in trees multiplied by the square root of b2 -- 2ac over 4a. If the number derived from this ridiculous, and practically useless formula is more than the number of swimming stories appearing in The Crimson during a one-week span, then spring has definitely arrived-accompanied, with fanfare, by dozens of horrible colds people have picked up as a result of playing...
...Sever 11 to attend a meeting for applicants who couldn't attend the 2 p. m. meeting of the Eliot House course. A few other people are there. On the blackboard in the room, a chalked sign reads: "Hum 96g is playing hard to get. Report to Harvard 4A for further instructions." We troop to Harvard Hall, where we find there is no 4A. After several desperate minutes, we return to Sever and find the meeting in progress. I begin to realize the nature of the competition...