Word: polarizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without formally disavowing the treaty under some pretext, the Russians could then touch off a series of explosions that might swing the nuclear balance in their favor. Even without such clandestine preparations, the Kremlin could carry out tests in outer space behind the sun or the moon, under the polar icecap, or at very low atmospheric levels...
Yesterday afternoon was rather amazing. In the first place, more than 7000 people actually went down to Kindle-stick Park to watch the Harvard-Yale baseball game. Secondly, in the middle of June these hearty alumni were subjected to near arctic weather that would have driven a sensible polar bear into hibernation. Third, Paul Del Rossi struck out seven in a row but nearly found himself en route to the shower room for wildness. The band was in tune...
Spreading Sausage. The astronomers relaxed, but not for long. Last week, after issuing soothing releases, M.I.T.'s Lincoln Lab announced that Project West Ford was blasting off once more. A redesigned dispenser climbed into a polar orbit riding piggyback on a secret Air Force satellite. Lincoln Lab scientists followed its course, and when they were sure it was in the proper orbit, they sent a signal that released a powerful spring...
Four hundred million copper wires are now circling the globe in a polar orbit at an altitude of 2300 miles. These "needles" are part of Project West Ford which began in 1958 when it was first suggested by Mr. Walter E. Morrow of M.I.T.'s Lincoln Labs. Morrow planned to place a belt of copper wires above the earth in order to provide a jam-proof, fail-proof, destruction-proof communication system...
...space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts" in space "in the coming months." On other days last week, the President: > Named retired Navy Captain William Robert Anderson, 41, the man who in 1958 skippered the nuclear submarine Nautilus on man's first voyage under the polar icecap, to head up the not-yet-existent National Service Corps, sometimes referred to as the domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired as CNO the same day-will serve...