Word: finders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirror that would be a respectable size even for a solid-ground observatory, but that mirror was only the beginning. The telescope was suspended so that it could swing in all directions, under precise control by ground radio. It carried a coarse-vision television camera to act as a finder and pick up guide-stars. As the telescope's 18-ft. tube swung around the heavens, a fine-vision TV camera told operators on the ground what it was seeing. When the telescope was finally locked on target, it kept pointing properly despite the motion of the balloon...
...against their own people. Hardly a night passes without the rattle of gunfire and the sounds of death from the other side. To West Berliners, the Wall is a calendar: they will recall a date by saying, "It happened the month before the Wall." It is a direction finder: strangers in search of a Gartenstrasse bordello are told to follow the Wall until they see the wooden screens that the Communist border guards put up to end East-West flirtation...
...village. By morning, truckloads of troops were converging on Due Hoa to follow up the retreating guerrillas. Not only South Vietnamese combat soldiers were being employed. U.S. Specialist Four James T. Davis, 25, of Livingston, Tenn., was riding a three-quarter-ton Signal Corps truck equipped with a location finder to spot a clandestine Red radio transmitter that has been broadcasting messages to Communist North Viet Nam. On Communal Road No. 10, a little before noon, the Signal Corps truck was blown up by an electrically detonated land mine. From both sides of the road, Viet Cong guerrillas opened withering...
...Harvey served as her husband's crew and ship's cook. For two days the vacationers cruised lazily among the Bahama islands. At Sandy Point on Great Abaco Island, their only port of call, they spent a pleasant weekend on the beach, and Dr. Duperrault told Roderick Finder, the British district commissioner, that it had been "a once-in-a-lifetime vacation." That night, under a mellow moon, Bluebelle set sail for Florida...
...Finder's Keepers...