Word: insigniaed
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...measured by radar, tracking cameras and two men lying on their backs on the desert, sighting upward past tight-stretched wires that marked start and finish. The metal skin of the F106 touched 340°F.; a lot of its grey paint was burned off, and its Air Force insignia bubbled and blistered. It landed with almost empty tanks, but it had beaten Russia's record of 1,483.83 m.p.h...
...terrorize the city. The occupying Japanese temporarily checked the Triad during World War II by lopping off fingers for even the smallest thefts, but today the Triad boasts a small army of extortionists and pimps, gunmen and gamblers, organized in four cadres identifiable only by number and their tattooed insignia on the backs of the Triad's 10,000 initiates...
...each of the three completed pads forming the base's Launch Complex 65-1, a twelve-story-high missile nestled in its gantry. Two more of the 200-ton silvery rockets, painted for the first time with the SAC insignia, lay in reserve, their H-bomb war heads stored near by, ready for installation in brief minutes. After five test flops followed by four successes in a row at Cape Canaveral, the U.S.'s prime weapon of deterrence seemed ready at last to serve Vandenberg's twin functions as an operational base for the launching of ICBMs...
...almost desperate effort to differentiate from the U.S., Canada proliferates Queen's highways, Queen's Counsels, Queen's Own Rifles, and all manner of "Royal" establishments. The Crown appears on mailboxes and military insignia, the Queen's portrait on ashtrays, saucers, and brooches, as well as on coins and paper money. No one smokes at a.banquet until a toast has been drunk to the Queen...
...mark its 125th birthday this year, the Long Island Rail Road, busiest U.S. commuter line, decided to spruce up its grimy face and its public image. Last week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long...