Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off from Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base to hover over the target area. Two Navy recovery ships patrolled the ocean below in case none of the Boxcars managed to hook the parachute. Like its predecessors, the Discoverer VIII capsule was designed to float, flash lights and beam directional radio signals to guide the search...
...University of California at Berkeley, Emilio Segre, 54, and Owen Chamberlain, 39. In 1955 they headed a team that found the long-sought antiprotons, key particles of the stranger-than-fiction world of antimatter (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955 et seq.). Antiprotons, which the Segre-Chamberlain team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits an antiproton, they annihilate each other, both turning into a powerful flash of gamma-ray energy...
...doubt that the excellent scientists, engineers and workers of the U.S.A. will also carry the pennant to the moon. The Soviet pennant, as an old resident, will then welcome your pennant." Khrushchev's tone at this point was so pleasantly conversational that Ambassador Menshikov flashed a warm beam, but Khrushchev's pleasantness stopped at his ice-cold bullet eyes. The Facts of Life. Thus began what was, from Washington to Manhattan to Los Angeles to San Francisco, not so much a move to reduce world tension as a historic and tireless one-man campaign to cajole, flatter, wheedle...
...years ago, he had a sudden notion that certain characteristics of the behavior of radio waves might be the key to a simple and reliable long-range detection system. Since both the ionosphere and the surface of the earth will deflect radio signals, a transmitter can angle its beam upward and the broad waves will carom back and forth between ground and sky as they proceed to circle the earth. Each deflection sends back an echo to the home transmitter, and this "back-scattering" was the phenomenon that attracted Thaler...
...Hood expected, her wide beam and deep centerboard gives Robin solid stability while beating to windward, and her shallow underbody makes her fast off the wind. So effective is Hood's centerboard that there was talk around the fleet last week that other racers may soon be copying his design as well as buying his sails. That would still leave Robin with one indispensable feature: Ted Hood himself at the tiller...