Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Off Cape Canaveral last week, the nation's newest and biggest Polaris submarine, the Ethan Allen, slipped into the Atlantic to test-shoot its first missile. Shortly before firing time. Captain Paul Lacy took the Ethan Allen up to periscope depth to check the relative positions of his sub...
One of the pickets carried a sign with the words, "Stop These Murderers Today-Polish Freedom Fighters". When asked of the significance of his poster, the demonstrator laughed, "That's a good one." Others handed out leaflets from the American Institute entitled, "Thank God for Polaris."
During the week, the Defense Department also announced that 10,000 more men would go to Europe, boost the number of reinforcements for the Seventh Army from 40,000 to 50,000 since the Berlin crisis began. At his press conference, Kennedy took special pains to detail the buildup in...
Standard weapon of U.S. nuclear submarines, the Polaris burns solid fuel, and it cannot be steered, as liquid-fuel rockets are, by swiveling the whole combustion chamber. Instead, Polarises now at sea use jetavators-movable nozzles inserted in their jet streams to deflect them and thus keep the rocket on course. No one likes jetavators; they are inherently troublesome, and their drag on the fast-moving jet stream soaks up precious thrust power even when they...
The new Polaris is equipped with nozzles that have no obstructions and no moving parts. For directional control, a small amount of freon gas is shot into the side of the hot exhaust stream, deflecting it just as if the nozzle had been turned. The system is light, and since...