Word: capes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...pushing Norton Sound at 95% of full power, even through the iceberg-menaced waters around Cape Horn, Captain Gralla reached the South Atlantic rendezvous three days ahead of schedule. Picking up first the Falkland Islands and then Tarawa on radar, he radioed a signal: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Replied Admiral Mustin from the carrier: "Greetings from 3,000 shellbacks." Back came Gralla: "Six hundred and fifty horned shellbacks are ready to shoot...
...balding man in crepe-soled shoes and a dark blue suit strolled quietly into the blockhouse opposite Pad No. 5 at Cape Canaveral, where Juno II stood tall and white with the gold-plated cone-Pioneer IV-hidden in its nose. Carrying his 72-page countdown book, he ambled around the blockhouse. The countdown had begun at 12:06 p.m. and was going well. He looked up at the rocket. "Very dignified," he observed approvingly. Later, as is his custom, he patted it affectionately before taking his position behind the three sheets of thick tempered glass that protect blast...
...getting our product to its ultimate consumer." The product can be anything from a 4½ton Atlas missile to a bucket of paint; the consumer can be a Strategic Air Command grease monkey in Morocco, an Air Force fighter squadron in Tokyo, a missile-testing crew at Cape Canaveral. Adds Rawlings: "Since 1951 we've just about equipped the Air Force with jet equipment. We've written contracts for $93 billion and spent about $83 billion. For that we've got an Air Force that's maintaining the peace in the world...
...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...