Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called him "our final card in North Africa"-though the fact of the matter is that if the French do not make an end to the bloody war in adjoining Algeria, none of their cards will be worth much. The U.S.'s interest is direct: it has a naval air station and four SAC air bases in Morocco from which, in case of war, bombers could command the Mediterranean and reach Russia itself...
When the first satellite is finally fired, probably sometime next year, it will take off from the Missile Test Center in total secrecy. That, at least, is the Navy's present plan. Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett, chief of naval research, concedes that the satellite is not supposed to be a military weapon. His stated reason for secrecy is that the presence of reporters, photographers, TV cameras and other representatives of the public's interest may rush his men into launching the satellite before they are completely ready or when the weather is not completely favorable...
Scoring in double figures for the third consecutive game, the JV baseball team defeated Quonset Point Naval Air Base 12-5 yesterday...
Herb Schreiner will pitch for the J.V. baseball squad today when the Crimson faces the Quonset Point Naval Air Base in a rescheduled game at Quonset Point...
...task of the Naval Research Laboratory was to find a surface for the satellite that 1) does not absorb much solar energy, and 2) gets rid of the energy that it does absorb without becoming too hot. When the satellites came from their manufacturer, Brooks & Perkins, Inc. of Detroit, they were thin-skinned magnesium spheres plated with gold. Aluminum is better for reflecting sunlight, but since aluminum will not stick to gold, the gold had to be covered with a thin film of chromium. Aluminum will stick to chromium, but it also mixes with it and loses part...