Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶In the captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau...
With brilliant timing and tactics, Richard Nixon had used the meeting with Rockefeller to position himself on the side of new departures for the 19605, broadening his potential appeal to independent voters, without losing the political value of identification with the Eisenhower Administration record?a record that got a considerable...
Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched...
Some 40 ft. below the roiling water, a grinning redhead, wearing the two stars of a rear admiral, thrust his way through the crowded companionway of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine George Washington and clapped her skipper, Commander James Osborn, on the back. Then, just to prove it was all...
Amid deepest secrecy, U.S. and Allied planes and ships have long prowled the air and sea approaches to the Soviet fortress. Such so-called "ferret" fights probe the Russian radar fences in the Pacific, in the Middle East and in the Arctic north. The Russians, for their part, send a...