Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stable reconnaissance and surveillance "island in the sky" manned by relays of crews. The Proton may be the prototype of a command ship that could control whole fleets of spaceships capable of denying to the U.S. the "near space" between the atmosphere and the 600-mile-high Van Allen Belt. Washington's answer is its own Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a bus-sized vehicle scheduled to be launched in 1969 in which crews would live and work for a month at a time. In case Russia presses the challenge, the U.S. is experimenting with a laser weapon that...
...exemplifies that spirit of machine-tooled pioneering better than British Columbia's Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett, 66, full-time politician and part-time prophet. He feels that Canada's thin population belt must push into the undeveloped North and the still developing West. "Canada is as broad as the U.S.," Bennett says, "but only half an inch deep. Until we push up from the border, we just won't go anywhere." Bennett himself has been pushing for 14 years, and it is his sort of effort that lies behind Canada's hope for the future...
...Columbia dams thus nicely paying for themselves, Bennett plunged ahead on the northern Peace. The Peace dam is a great earthen slab that will rise higher than the Grand Coulee, 2,700 ft. wide at the base and stretching 1.3 miles across the valley. Engineers devised a mammoth conveyor belt that, moving at 121 m.p.h., delivers 12,000 tons of fill an hour from a moraine four miles away. When the dam is topped off, it will back up a lake stretching for 240 miles...
Fifteen miles down the road, he was involved in a minor accident. Uninjured, Estes stepped out and said to people who had gathered around: "See? I might have been hurt if I hadn't worn my seat belt...
...Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested by a local newsman. "I have something to do," he muttered. Then, with a six-inch dagger concealed in his right hand and two stilettos tucked in his belt, Tsafendas walked into the chamber...