Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crewmen went out in rotating groups of 20 to explore, Skipper Nicholson radioed to Operation Deepfreeze headquarters at the South Pole (loud and clear). Then he submerged, took Sargo on "a quick seven-minute trip around the world." On two of their Arctic surfacings, the crewmen spotted tracks of polar bears, happily went hunting for them. Score: none sighted, none bagged. But they had other adventures. The tougher surfacings and a close scrape against the ice pushed in Sargo's sail, punched a pair of holes in its afterdeck, ripped out a plastic dome in its bow. Once...
...Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret...
Strayed Capsule. In the Discoverer series, the Air Force's purpose is to fire a satellite into polar orbit, then bring it back by firing a retrorocket that detaches a recovery capsule, slows it and makes it dive into the atmosphere south of Hawaii. Airplanes towing trapezelike devices are to try to catch the parachuting capsule before it hits the water. On Aug. 14 the retrorocket of Discoverer V was fired by a ground signal, but the planes circled in vain. The capsule, an object 33 in. in diameter and weighing just over 300 Ibs., had disappeared...
Last week's Midas splashed into the Atlantic when the second stage failed to fire. But an operational Midas, presumably flying on a polar orbit, will be able to report a missile trail by radio signals that can be received at great distances by U.S. listening stations. If two or more satellites make a simultaneous report, the missile's position can be automatically computed with good accuracy. The Air Force is convinced that six or eight Midas sentries can keep the whole earth under surveillance, reporting almost instantly when and where a possible hostile missile has been launched...
...when Niviaksiak's companion and others returned to bury him, they found his body unmauled; the bear had not even come near him. Among Cape Dorset people there was only one explanation: Niviaksiak's art had probed too near, had offended the spirit of the great polar bear...