Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor...
...cheered their Lunik back toward earth, U.S. space and missile men also put in a busy week. In a three-point hat trick after weeks of disappointing failures, the U.S. orbited an instrument-packed scientific satellite, quickly topped off that accomplishment with the most successful flights yet of an air-launched ballistic missile and a Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Items: ¶Up from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral and into orbit from the tip of a four-stage Army Juno II rocket curved the 91½-lb. Explorer VII. By far the most sophisticated U.S. satellite...
...Martin-made missile lifted into a steep arc, soared "within ten miles" of Explorer VI, 156 miles up. It then continued squarely on course, plunking into the ocean 1,000 miles from the launch spot. The Air Force's argument: an airborne ballistic missile like Bold Orion, mounted on a long-endurance B70 bomber, would provide instantaneous retaliation against aggression, from a missile base that would be difficult to pinpoint and knock out; it might also be used against enemy satellites or spaceships. ¶Next day an Army solid-fuel Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile streaked across the skies...
Midway Island is the happy home of 645,000 albatrosses-about 35% of the world population of the Laysan species and 16% of the black-footed species. Difficulty is, Midway is also the home of a major air facility of the U.S. Navy, and the place is not big enough for both bird and plane. Last week the U.S. Navy decided that the troublesome albatross must...
When it goes on the air in January 1961, the new station will operate on a very low frequency band (14 to 30 kilocycles), sending out radio waves up to one mile long audible to surface ships and shore stations around the world. It may be utilized experimentally to try out the new Tepee scatter-back system for detecting missile firings in Russia. But specifically, it should be capable of sending orders to subs operating under the surface of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The Navy says that the signals will reach "deep down." Best estimate is that they...