Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even formulated solid concepts for countering ballistic missiles. Far more demanding than the anti-missile itself is development of the fully integrated and highly automatic system required-in the limited time available -to detect an ICBM on its way. 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...
...highly praised book called Why England Slept. Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During...
...American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...
Calm & Confident. At his palace desk in Amman, young King Hussein was calm and confident. As soon as the''Cairo campaign started, his police visited every school in refugee trouble spots, warned teachers that they faced instant arrest if they permitted any kind of demonstration by their students. Jordan's own radio returned salvo for salvo, refuting Nasser's charges, charging in turn that "Nasser is a Communist puppet" who is holding his people "under whip and chain...
...Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...