Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines over Thomasville, Ga. datelines last week during what longtime White House reporters deemed the most baffling of all Dwight Eisenhower's presidential weeks. Reason for bafflement : for the first time no one even tried to keep up the appearance that the vacationing President was in daily command of U.S. affairs...
Overzealous Polarismen, clocking this swift progress, are certain now that they have the ultimate deterrent to all-out thermonuclear war. The U.S. might as well get ready to scratch the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, they boast, since 40 Polaris subs (life span: 15-20 years), along with the necessary hardware, crews, tenders and a few extra bases, would cost only $7 billion-and that would about pay for all the deterrent the U.S. needs...
...booster rocket that will push it up to orbiting speed (18,000 m.p.h.). It will climb into genuine space, well above 150 miles. There will be no human pilot on the first flights. Automatic instruments will ride the winged satellite around the earth for awhile. Then, perhaps on electronic command from below, they will glide it to earth. Later, as the art develops, the first human pilot may take the same ride...
...solve problems fed to him through a double-screen radarscope. Similar but not identical tracking patterns appeared on the two screens. By twiddling dials, Farrell had to make the right-hand screen match the left. Flanking him was a whopping panel with 30 lights, each labeled with a command. When the light flashed indicating "check oxygen equipment," Farrell did so and got his mask on in 19½ seconds...
...rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...