Word: intercepter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard each of the two-man, tvvin-engined jets was a Navy pilot and a radar-intercept officer, whose job was to navigate and handle communications. Each mile of the transcontinental trip was meticulously plotted, and electronic computers calculated the precise place and time at which mid-air refueling would be required (near Albuquerque, St. Louis and Pittsburgh). Using afterburners for maximum speed-more than 1,300 m.p.h.-the jets kept to an altitude of 50,000 ft. except for refueling, when they throttled back to less than 600 m.p.h. and dropped to 30,000 ft. to rendezvous with waiting...
...North Carolina's Uwharrie National Forest, 50 men broke camp in the swamps and headed stealthily out to intercept and disrupt regular U.S. Army troops on maneuver. In Alaska, a similar force worked with Eskimo scouts in the tundra. Another outfit was learning to handle explosives at the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition school in the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines, another detachment on maneuvers against the 2nd Airborne Battle Group of the 503rd Infantry, slipped through the jungle lines, dropped imitation poison in the drinking water, captured trucks, and otherwise raised sufficient havoc to delay the "advance...
...detected a couple of dangerous loopholes. The resolution said nothing about the shipment of foreign arms and equipment into the Congo, and did not give Hammarskjold's men the right to intercept such contraband. This was, after all, the key to peace. But when the U.S. proposed amendments to close these loopholes, some of the resolution's backers were strangely reluctant to agree; one of them was Nasser's U.A.R., which had been trafficking in arms for Gizenga for some weeks and perhaps wanted to continue doing...
...Regrettable incident," the Quai d'Orsai conceded. But why had the Ilyushin failed to respond to radio and visual urgings to get back on proper course? Reason for the intercept and the warning shots across the bow was that the Ilyushin had strayed inside what the French have marked off as their 80-mile "zone of responsibility" off Algeria. There the embattled French, trying to prevent infiltration of arms and men to the Algerian rebels, insist on the reserve right to control air and sea traffic. Furthermore, said the French, custom had been violated by the Russians' failure...
...sweep. Half-time score: Navy 17, Army 0. Then Army rallied for two touchdowns, and suddenly Bellino was in danger of becoming the Navy goat when he fumbled the ball. But when Army tried a long pass in the closing seconds, there was Bellino to intercept on the one, run back the ball for 44 yds. and preserve a 17-12 victory for Navy. After the game, Navy accepted an invitation to play Missouri in the Orange Bowl. ¶ Bouncing into the air like a giant Pogo stick, the Philadelphia Warriors' skyscraping (7 ft. 2 in., 260 Ibs.) Wilt...