Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ocean one night last week thundered a 100-ton symbol of U.S. scientific skill and diligence: the Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Fully powered with close to 370,000 lbs. of thrust, the 80-ft. beast leaped from its Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang for a long time, suspended, like a star...
Tracking Far. Electronic tracking told the rest of the story: Atlas coursed over an ocean at 16,000 m.p.h.. past the equator, past Ascension island, to a point near St. Helena, where the exiled and imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months...
...when Foreign Offices employ batteries of experts, trade specialists, speechwriters and paper sorters who glory in their settled ways, nations rarely act any more on carefree impulse. Thus, international surprise was the first reaction to last week's merger of Ghana (formerly a British colony on the Gold Coast) with Guinea, which until two months ago was a French colony. The second reaction last week in London and Paris was shock...
...battle scenes already filmed on Saragossa's Los Monegros plains would have to be done over somewhere else. (Saragossa has already turned too cold.) Scouting parties spread out to the Canary Islands, and Málaga and Almeria on Spain's south coast. But it is not easy to find a sunny desert replete with enough Spanish soldiers (about 2,000) and enough horses (about 200). For a while, Ty's business partner, Ted Richmond, even considered Israel, finally gave up the idea because of a shortage of Israeli troops and possible international complications. ("What would Nasser...
Years ago Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, began collecting references to an ancient temple of Diana that apparently flourished for more than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black...