Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lunik III is a small, new member of the earth-moon system, and its big associates can tug at it strongly whenever it gets within range. The effect on its orbit will be greatest whenever Lunik III comes close to the moon, but this will not happen often. Eventually, Lunik...
Between hurricane warnings the morning was glassy calm and only faintly overcast as the submarine U.S.S. Archerfish hove to, 15 miles southwest of Key West, over Vestal Shoal. Flooding her tanks, Archerfish submerged and settled gently on the coral-sand bottom at 322 ft. On the surface, the submarine rescue...
In the forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip...
As a disease detective in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf was called in on many a late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White...
Indeed, holding down Twenty One's budget was as vital as pushing up its rating. Twenty One's sponsor, Geritol-making Pharmaceuticals, Inc., limited its prize money to $520,000 a year. The producers, Dan Enright and M.C. Jack Barry, 41, were to cover anything over that limit...