Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Point Lead? Many U.S. technicians believe that the Russians have probably long since frozen their basic rocket design upon one model, and it now functions with workhorse reliability. U.S. missilemen take some comfort in the fact that the U.S.'s newer, more sophisticated rockets have intricate and ingenious instrumentation, guidance systems, planet scanners, communication. Another key U.S. claim: the U.S. has succeeded in miniaturizing its instrument payloads-not to mention its military missile warheads...
...throw them on the wall and they'll keep on ticking. American missiles are like expensive ladies' wrist watches that look nice but tend to stop frequently." An old missile hand at Cape Canaveral turned to a football figure. The Russians, said he, are now leading in moon shots by 7 to 6-they have converted after the touchdown. He did not need to add that, operationally speaking, missilery is perhaps the one game where peace and safety can be lost to a one-point lead...
...that admitted Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. Last state to be admitted: Arizona, Feb. 14, 1912. Reason for the precise timing: the 85th Congress expired at noon, and signature any earlier would have given Alaska's two Senators and single Representative a seniority lead on the new members of the 86th Congress...
Linked by road only to India, little Sikkim, the size of Delaware, has managed to preserve its identity across the centuries. Its 140,000 inhabitants lead a happy-go-lucky life amid oranges, orchids and 4,000 species of rhododendrons, in lush emerald valleys beneath 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, and Sikkim's "protecting deity of the snowy ranges...
...cover cartoon, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht is a pirate whose wooden leg, watered by vodka, has taken root in a Red army helmet. The caption: "Forward into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment...