Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After years of sophisticated underground nuclear tests in Nevada, U.S. weapons scientists are confident that they have finally conceived an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that can be effective. Sidestepping the complex problem of directly intercepting an attacking 17,000-m.p.h. intercontinental ballistic missile with a defensive missile -a feat equivalent to hitting a flying bullet with another bullet-they have designed a system that will use great bursts of X rays from exploding nuclear warheads to destroy enemy missiles at a distance...
...fresh faces have come a number of changes. Cutting overhead as well as appeasing native resentment over its huge land holdings, the company since 1960 has pared its acreage in Latin American banana lands from 134,593 to 81,089, has managed to increase output just the same. That feat is due largely to the company's development of the new Valery strain of banana, which endures wind, rain and disease better than the company's old Gros Michel (also called Big Mike) variety. Valery also gets a much higher per-acre yield. Even the Valery...
...unvalued Texas oil lands, the Press set up "the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press." Under its aegis are published the John Harvard Library, including such American fiction of historical interest as Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Adams Papers, which President Kennedy called "a major feat in American historical scholarship...
...Chandelier. Johnson's main contribution to the conference, as it turned out, was his ability to make the Presidents feel that he -and the U.S.-really understood their problems and wanted to help. That was no mean feat at Punta del Este, where Johnson was a very big fish in a very small pool. Employing the strictest security precautions in its history, Uruguay cordoned off the peninsula with 1,000 police and 600 soldiers, who allowed only accredited newsmen and diplomats to pass roadblocks. Guards stood on rooftops with high-powered rifles and studied the surroundings through binoculars. Security...
...Giles not only lived with that edict but, by putting the plane on BOAC's well-promoted transatlantic service, he helped turn the craft into one of the company's biggest moneymakers. The feat only emboldened buy-British forces, who got added ammunition from the crash of a BOAC-owned 707 on Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s...