Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in December 1956, when Batista was firmly ensconced as President of Cuba, and mainly occupied with doing what he could to bolster the sagging sugar trade, Dr. Fidel Castro and a group of his followers made the first landing on the coast of Cape Cruz. The august London Times, which is generally amused by furtive rebellions in South America, took advantage of the occasion to chuckle mildly at the insurgent invasion, and in its dryest patriarchal manner advised the rebels to put down their guns and go home...
...Cape Canaveral the Air Force successfully test fired part of a new air-to-ground weapons system called the Bold Orion. Slated for the Strategic Air Command, the revolutionary nuclear-tipped missile will prolong the useful life of SAC bombers by enabling them to fire at targets 1,000 miles distant-from points outside an enemy's radar screen. Last week's shot, fired by a supersonic B58 Hustler (whose sonic boom startled beach residents) was a one-stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier...
After making successful static tests, Cape Canaveral's Air Force missileers scheduled the first launching (limited range) of the U.S.'s newest "second generation" ICBM, the two-stage, 9,500-mile Titan (TIME, Oct. 13). But the big (90 ft., 110 tons) job never got off the ground: malfunction kicked in a "fail-safe" mechanism that automatically shut off the first-stage propulsion system seconds after it began to fire. Still, in the light of a fast-growing technology, backed by last week's huge achievements, the U.S. knew better than to condemn Titan on the strength...
...engine has less dead weight to carry into space. In this particular model, the sustainer was designed to burn 13 seconds longer than in the regular models. Without this extra thrust, needed to put the Atlas into orbit, it would have plunged into the Atlantic 6,000 miles from Cape Canaveral...
...estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...