Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 88 people ever knew of it. One day early last week, a few Army Signal Corps technicians showed up discreetly in the President's office, recorded the satellite message that Ike himself had written, tucked it away till it was needed at Cape Canaveral. Even the button pusher who fired the Atlas from the Cape blockhouse did not know that the bird contained the tape recording, or that it had been set to orbit. Most of the others in the launching crew were equally in the dark and equally furious during the first moments of flight, when...
...Kingston, N.Y. demonstrators pressed a button on an enormous IBM-built SAGE computer, launched an air-breathing Air Force Bomarc missile from a pad at Cape Canaveral. Guided by Kingston, the Bomarc headed first for a B-17 drone over the Atlantic, found it, then attacked a second drone target miles away, finally was allowed to drop harmlessly into...
...hopes and promises that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson brought with him to Washington nearly six years ago-and no one knows it better than Ezra Benson. In a speech last week in Los Angeles, like the legendary sorcerer's apprentice, he all but pushed the panic button in warning that the runaway price-support programs for wheat, tobacco and peanuts "might soon become disastrous." Said he: "We must complete our revision of the farm programs without delay...
...that small voice and wistful smile need something to set them off. The need is quickly fulfilled-by Linda Low, a buxom, button-nosed stripper from the Celestial Bar, whom the musical's plot casts as Mei Li's rival. Bold, brassy and bubbling with unabashed sex, Linda belts out a song that tells...
...first launching at this new Air Force missile base and the free world's first firing of a ballistic under push button warfare circumstances. The 11-man crew fired the missile at 3:43 p.m., only 11 minutes after starting to fill it with fuel...