Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-headed Hydra of Greek mythology was a tough monster to be up against: every time a head was cut off, two more promptly grew in its place.* Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson sometimes feels as harried and frustrated as a man trying to kill a Hydra. Under Benson, as under his Democratic predecessors, farm surpluses have kept right on piling up, and the nation's yearly price-support bill has kept getting bigger...
Considering the inefficiency of the present organization for missiles development, failures of the Vanguard type and dangerous laggings in ICBM development can only be expected. The present hydra-headed system produces innumerable delays in production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard...
...track it, predict its trajectory and, at the proper instant, launch an intercept missile with nuclear or thermonuclear warhead. And what is the proper instant? When the missile is still in outer space? Or after it has slowed within the atmosphere? How will the system operate if a Hydra-headed missile rains down multiple charges or decoys? Or takes aerodynamic evasive action? Or orbits before plunging (see SCIENCE...
...famed "porthole" trademark. The new Buick has clean fenders, a waffle-iron grille with 160 square nubs, an improved "flight-pitch" Dynaflow transmission, new air-cooled aluminum brakes and a new, high-priced ($4,663 top) Limited series. Olds got the same extensive body change, plus an improved Hydra-Matic transmission and air-suspension ride. One surprising change: for those who complain about the horsepower race, Olds has reduced its standard V-8 from 277 h.p. to 265 h.p. But just in case all the holler dies down, Olds also has engines...
...girl of the title (Ellie Lambetti) is the daughter of a well-to-do businessman on the island of Hydra. Her father was killed in the war, and his family has fallen on evil days. To keep the big house going, they have let all the servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts...