Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diana got out her father's old rifle, bought a box of .22 short shells at the Seven-Eleven Store around the corner, methodically test-fired it into her mattress. Then she went to her father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired...
...anything without U.S. consent. So far, the U.S. was not in a mood to give that consent. But Chiang's impatience was a sharp reminder that the West could not shelve or solve Quemoy's problem simply by demanding that its defenders sit and take it (see box, opposite), in a battle they could not afford to lose and were not allowed...
...Sabre jets were flying cover for reconnaissance planes one morning, three swarms of MIG-17s buzzed in from the north, south and east, tried to box the Nationalists against the mainland. The Sabre jets were outnumbered, 100 to 32. But in a stop-and-go, five-hour battle that extended along a 400-mile arc along the coast (and 50 miles inland), the Sabres danced a jig around the MIGs. When the Nationalist pilots rolled back to Taipei to be saluted with firecrackers and garlanded with flowers, the scorecard read: ten MIGs downed, at least three others crippled. Nationalist losses...
...company expanded rapidly and during World War II the AN-T-18 Basic Instrument Trainer, known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as the Blue Box, was standard equipment at every air-training school in the U.S. and Allied countries. Every advance in planes and missiles brought new Link trainers-for jet fighters and bombers, transpolar celestial navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom...
Exploring the Sea. The biggest chunk of the company's sales comes from its avionics subsidiaries. The hottest new product: a 2-cu.-ft. black box (Hidan), that enables a pilot in a plane to know exactly where he is at all times. With it, pilots can take off from any airport in the U.S. and fly to another, guided only by the signals from the black box...