Word: drills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train missileers, the U.S. had to start from scratch-and is only just beginning. The job was given to SAC, which has had to assemble crews and drill into them the sciences of inertial guidance, pneumatics, electronics, hydraulics, cryogenics. After hours and hours of such studies, the trainees are sent on to specialized courses on various missiles (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman), then are assigned to combat crews...
...doctors with masks to monitor their oxygen consumption, and conducted a battery of other tests, both before and after the operations. Though the surgeons may have done nothing more strenuous than cutting and tying small blood vessels, they expended, on the average, as much energy as welders or drill-press operators. At the climax of the operations, their hearts raced to an average of 118 beats per minute, with one surgeon logging...
...came when a Shell Oil drill crew found rotary mud gushing from one of its wells. Rotary mud is forced down new holes to cool drill tips, and the Shell crew concluded that another drill had pierced its well shaft. A search quickly turned up the pirate rig-3,000 ft. away over the piny hills. At Shell's complaint, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in the state, ordered a crew of engineers into the field...
...World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory virtue"; Fourier had "a pathological lust for social tidiness." Said Huxley: "Most utopists have had the souls, but happily not the effective power, of drill sergeants and dictators." Blonde Jean Martin Black, 34, who used to croon coffee commercials for Chock Full O'Nuts when she was married to its bossman, had a heavenly idea. Since her niggardly $3,000-a-month alimony from ex-Husband William Black, 53, didn't go very...
...review will begin with a parada at 2 30 p.m. and will be followed by a drill competition among the three units, the presentation of awards to outstanding cadets and midshipmen and the march in review...