Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal of rock into flour-fine dust. If the collision takes place, as on earth, under a thick atmosphere, little of the dust escapes. When neither of the colliding objects has an atmosphere, much of the dust splashes out into space, each particle revolving around the sun on an orbit...
...China port, and froze Red China funds in the U.S. or in U.S.-controlled territory. Earlier, the Department of Commerce had clamped down on trading with all Iron Curtain countries. It freshened up a blacklist of some 200 companies and individuals who have been sneaking goods into the Soviet orbit. The department said that it was also keeping a close watch on all exports to Switzerland, Spain and other way stations in the shipment of strategic goods from the U.S. to the Soviet area...
Under the most extreme circumstances of Choice 3, both Japan and Germany would soon be added to the Communist orbit. The people of both are strongly antiCommunist, but they are even more strongly determined not to be on the losing side of another war. Without Western help they will not stand up to Communist pressure. A Red Japan removes all hope of U.S. defense of the Western Pacific. A Red Germany removes all hope of thwarting Red domination of Western Europe...
...still restless and is constantly on the move-usually behind the wheel of one of his two Cadillac convertibles-around a self-designed orbit...
...book falls easily into subdivisions. It first shows how the American position grew out of a desire to keep the European nations--particularly England--out of what was considered to be the orbit of the U. S. After a section on the factors which shaped British policy, Professor Merk passes on to the actual negotiations for a boundary settlement...