Word: miles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Moscow, Paris, Bonn and London flew the man hailed in British headlines as "Supermac" and enthusiastically billed, on the way to British elections, as political leader of the free world. With each approaching mile, the blips showed more clearly that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meant to persuade the U.S. to relax some of its basic cold-war policies. Forewarned by London press leaks and by its own intelligence from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower...
...questions were even more urgent than Captain Gralla knew when Norton Sound set off on Project Argus: two 100-mile-high atomic explosions carried out by the U.S. in August at Johnston Island in the mid-Pacific caused heavy interference with radio and radar over a distance of 700 miles...
...second shot, a conventional 65-ft.Thor, successfully ran its 1,600-mile flight, bringing to 36 the total of Thor rockets tested...
...week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...
Last spring a private donation enabled eight runners who made up the mile and two-mile relay teams to practice in the South during spring vacation, but this year's trip marks the first time that a full complement of track men has escaped the Cambridge weather...