Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bricks are converted back into liquid gasoline by being passed through a wringer. The Air Force is evaluating disks coated with adhesive-filled microcapsules that would break when pressed against the exterior of a spacecraft. The released adhesive would firmly cement the disk to the craft, providing an anchor for an astronaut walking or working in space. Similar encapsulated adhesives would simplify the joining of parts under water...
Football players Pete Peterson and Steve Diamond typify the rugby tradition. They are nice guys off the field, but once playing, they love to hit. They, along with Buzzy Marks, the fall's high scorer, will anchor the scrum...
...needle in a haystack -or "perhaps in a hayfield," as one official put it. For all the tips from fishermen and experts' calculations, the bomb could have landed just about anywhere over an area of scores of square miles, and the parachute could have acted as a sea anchor in the swift coastal cur rents, tugging the bomb into less accessible depths. Then, too, the sea floor's shifting mud might have ultimately hidden the bomb from view...
...service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship weighs anchor for Viet Nam with a cargo of lumber and ammunition. Said Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson at the ceremony: "Once more Americans are fighting for freedom halfway around the world. Once more ships are needed to supply the tools of battle. And once more the Red Oak Victory is heeding the call...
...medley relay, John Wurster, Grant Hammond, Tony Obst, and Tom Pringle swam a 1:53.5, beating Kirkland by nearly a body-length. Walter Keats, Tom Pringle, Jeff Dundon and anchor Richard Blumenthal did a 1:36.7--average splits of 24 plus--to win by over half the pool...