Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...
Fire & Water. So far, Castro has made no overt move against Guantánamo. Last October, when a fire threatened to destroy neighboring Caimanera, the base commander, Rear Admiral Frank W. Fenno, sent fire trucks to help extinguish the blaze, then gave more than half a ton of food. The Navy's thanks: statements by the base workers' union boss, Machinist Federico Figueras Larrazabal, that "workers at the naval base have to be alert to unmask any maneuver of the North American imperialists similar to that they performed when they blew up the Maine." As of last week...
...devotes nearly as much space to domestic news as it does to national news. One of its most popular features is a three-to four-column chronicle of Buffalo items, headed "Daily News Summary" and set in eye-straining agate type. Here the News reports birth, traffic mishap, burglary, blaze, marriage license, missing person, court judgment, bankruptcy and stolen car. Deaths, society notices, club meetings and high school athletic contests get more generous shares of space...
Once safe in space, a missile or satellite is hard to find (see above). But when it is first launched, its booster looses an enormous amount of heat that shines far out into space as a blaze of infrared radiation. At Cape Canaveral last week the U.S. attempted to launch its first reconnaissance satellite designed to take advantage of this fact. Called Midas (from Missile Defense Alarm System), the satellite carried infrared detectors, which will pick up a missile's hot exhaust trail as it rises above the hazy, moisture-laden lower atmosphere. From a satellite on a high...
...captain (George Sanders) of the liner Claridon, several days at sea with 1,500 passengers aboard, is not alarmed by the news of the fire, and fortune at first seems to smile on his sangfroid. The blaze is quickly put out. But its heat has fused the safety valve of the No. 3 boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will...