Word: a2
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavier Rock, Bigger Bang. "We used the same paint," says Stanley W. Burriss, manager of the Lockheed Aircraft division that is prime contractor for the missile. "But just about everything else is new." Burriss estimates that only 10% of the A3's components came from the A2. The new missile is about 16 in. longer than the A2, and its bullet-shaped nose is discarded after the missile has cleared the atmosphere, uncovering the warhead (missile engineers call it the rock) which is heavier, more powerful. According to unofficial reports, the A-3 packs 750 kilotons of bang instead...
University doctors confirmed yesterday that several flu victims admitted to the Health center last week and were suffering from the A2, or "Asian" strain...
Experiments have not yet been completed in Health Center laboratories to determine whether the local influenza germ is the A2 variety, known as "Asian." (It was called "Spanish" near the turn of the century.) When this is done, later in the week, the University will report the situation to the Massachusetts Department of Health...
...have proved to be type B. instead of the Asian mutant of the type A group that caused the last notable epidemic two years ago. Though both virus types cause disease outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four-to six-year cycles. The U.S. has had none to speak...
...bacterial pneumonia (hard to separate, because one so often complicates the other) were about 50% above average for January's first half, reported the U.S. Communicable Disease Center. In seven states and the District of Columbia the active flu virus was identified as the mutant Asian strain, A2-57. In seven other states the same strain was suspect, but not yet convicted on laboratory evidence...