Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of...
Probably none of Russia's subs can yet match the U.S. Polaris missile subs' ability to fire from a submerged position, and the missiles they carry are presumed to be only short-range (300 miles) land-type types installed on regular subs whose conning towers were enlarged to...
Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German...
The planning group was rushing to meet a deadline this week set by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, who created the board last August as a solution to a nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The...
Shortly after the first Russian Sputnik soared into orbit in October 1957, Gates picked up the enthusiasm of the Navy's Polaris missile boosters, fought the civilian battles for a speedup in the Polaris program through the Defense Department and the White House. As a result, the first battle...