Word: beacons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steady Platform. In the blockhouse, Debus listened as the clipped argot of the missilemen's countdown came over the loudspeaker: "Telemetry-on. Radar beacon-on. DOVAP*-on." Hundreds of men both in and out of the blockhouse were doing thousands of things. The rocket itself had come awake. In its guidance section, a gyroscopically stabilized platform was accurately aligned with the intended course. When the rocket rose into the sky, the platform would keep steady in space, allowing the rocket's computer brain to steer by it as if it were both a compass and a horizon...
...organization, Arlington Books, Inc., has reduced overhead to a minimum, with its only office in Bledsoe's home. All editors and advisers contribute their services without pay except Bledsoe, who left his job with the Beacon Press to work full time on the new enterprise...
...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...
...track. When its speed has decreased sufficiently, a large landing parachute will unfold. A big rubberized "doughnut" will inflate around the capsule's base, designed to cushion the impact if it drops on land, or to keep it afloat if it falls in the ocean. A tracking beacon, two-way radio, flashing lights, sofar bombs (for underwater sound) and dye markers will guide search parties...
...Sale of the News leaves Knight with four papers: the Akron Beacon-Journal (circ. 163,191), Detroit Free Press (463,469), Miami Herald (270,573) and Charlotte (N.C.) Observer...