Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ramjet development work until late last year, when Marquardt Corp. scientists convincingly demonstrated a practical method of maintaining combustion in a supersonic flow of air. Using hydrogen, which has a low ignition temperature, burns rapidly and provides high thrust, they kept an experimental scramjet burning in air moving as fast as 7,000 m.p.h. By redesigning their engine's inlet to allow it to gulp air at supersonic speeds, they were also able to eliminate the excessive temperatures and pressures. And they proved that useful thrust could be produced at flight speeds in excess of 17,000 m.p.h...
...votes came thick and fast as the 2,300 prelates assembled for the Second Vatican Council hurried to make the deadline for the four-year council's end on Dec. 8. By sizable majorities they approved, in principle, the 30,000 word schema on The Church in the Modern World, though there was some vociferous minority naysaying-notably from some conservatives who deplored the schema's encouragement of a "prudent" dialogue with atheists and from some Americans such as Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who took exception to the schema's stern condemnation of atomic weapons...
...morning, Jesus. I've got to move fast - get into the bathroom, wash up, grab a bite to eat, and run some more. Where am I running? You know these things I can't understand. It's not that I need to have you tell me. What counts most is just that somebody knows, and it's you. That helps a lot. So I'll follow along, okay? But lead, Lord. Now I've got to run. Are you running with me, Jesus...
...great quarterback, but if you beat his blockers, you beat him." Rookie Fullback Tucker Frederickson of the New York Giants is "strong right now, but in a year he'll hit a little less hard." And Flanker Bobby Mitchell of the Washington Redskins is already "slowing down fast"-at the age of 30. There is only one player in the game today whose ability on field commands almost universal admiration, and that is Jimmy Brown...
Last week Olin dedicated the world's largest ammonia plant at Lake Charles, La., thus increasing its substantial stake in the fast-growing world market for chemical fertilizer. The $19 million plant will produce 1,400 tons of ammonia a day, require a crew of only 32. It should eventually enable Olin to shut down its older, more costly ammonia plant at Lake Charles, where a staff of 71 produces only 350 tons a day. To take full advantage of the need for fertilizers-the world must double its food supply by 1980 just to keep even-the company...