Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Air Force and Navy interceptor planes are already using air-to-air guided missiles (with electronic or infra-red detection) to boost their chances of a hit, e.g., the Air Force's three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie...
Richter, who knows Bach's entire keyboard works by memory, was at the harpsichord himself, his back to the audience, rising to conduct arias and choruses, then dropping like a falcon to improvise accompaniments for the recitatives. The critics were disarmed. Richter gave them a joyfully dynamic performance that was nonetheless satisfyingly authentic. Admitting that there were no signs of Richter's previous peccadillos in this concert and genially explaining the old flaws as "growing pains," the dean of Munich's critics, Karl Heinz Ruppel, summed up the concert in one word: "Wunderbar...
Today, the U.S. again has 40-odd missiles in operation or under development, and some of them are birds of a feather, e.g., the Navy's air-to-air Sidewinder and the Air Force's Falcon. The University of Buffalo's Chancellor Clifford C. Furnas, onetime (December 1955-February 1957) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development, recalls that it was all but impossible to get the Navy and Air Force to work together on a single 500-mile-range, subsonic, surface-to-surface missile: "As a consequence, we have two such missiles...
...late thirties and early forties, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in a series of exceptional mystery films. The Mask of Dimitrios, like The Maltese Falcon, On Green Dolphin Street and Casablanca, follows modern fairy-tale characters through intriguing morasses of international espionage, murder, and blackmail with a charm that remains fresh...
...slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes's Falcon and Martin's Matador...