Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of the councilors, however, were unwilling to endorse her plan for a nature reservation to be named after the late author and naturalist, Bernard A. DeVoto '18, who studied the area. The motion to endorse Mrs. Cottrell's bill was sidetracked to the Committee on Roads and Bridges, headed by Alfred Vellucci...
...built. Since they follow elliptical courses through space, they must climb more than 1,000 miles to reach a respectable horizontal range. The climb costs vast amounts of fuel, making the missiles expensive and unwieldy. The curve of re-entry is simple and predictable. If the missile's motion is plotted by the enemy during any part of its flight, its full trajectory can be computed. Then perhaps a defending rocket can be shot up from the ground to meet and destroy...
...spite of its speed (18,000 m.p.h.) a satellite is a sitting duck. Its motion on its orbit can be predicted precisely, days in advance if necessary. So if any kind of satellite makes itself objectionable to a nation that it passes over, a defending rocket can be shot up 'to meet it. A direct hit by the rocket would not be necessary. When it reaches the satellite's orbit, its warhead could explode into thousands or hundreds of thousands of tiny artificial meteors, any one of which packs enough energy to do a job on the satellite...
...image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...
Since it is spinning end-over-end, the rocket could catch the air length-wise, and stay in the atmosphere for some time, carried along by the motion of the earth. Or, as an alternative, it could rapidly rush to the earth...