Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly slenderized (from 215 to 191 Ibs.) for the fray, Michael Vincent Di Salle, 50, former mayor of Toledo and onetime price stabilization chief, is raring to do what he just missed doing in 1956: beat the Republicans' low-gear, low-key C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42. During an undistinguished first term, Billy O'Neill demonstrated nothing so much as a knack for ruffling the feathers of party roosters, e.g., by trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state...
...launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give the Navy an operational submarine-launched supersonic missile until the IRBM Polaris (fired from a submerged sub) comes along...
Like most buildups, this one was fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that...
...came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...Trieste help? It may improve sonar gear by showing how to cut through the ocean's sound-distorting layers of temperature and noisy marine life. Already it has found life right at the bottom. Another finding: layers of different temperature form "tunnels" that carry sound waves for thousands of miles. In one, an exploding 4-lb. charge of dynamite can be heard from San Diego to Hawaii...