Word: polarizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colorful politician-he was elected speaker of the Virginia House after just one term. With offbeat humor, he named his three sons Tom, Dick and Harry (they arrived in reverse order), was to take great pleasure in their later success: Tom in business, Dick as the world-famed polar explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who died in 1957; Harry in politics. But old Dick was also a most convivial fellow, who loved a sociable sip and was so totally lacking in financial sense that he rapidly took his family toward bankruptcy...
...tested most of the operational missile-age hardware of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and is increasingly a testing ground for NASA. The first operationally fired Thor was launched from Vandenberg, and so was the first Atlas to be rocketed across the Pacific. The Discoverer series was launched into polar orbit, and the 1960 recovery of the gold-plated capsule of Discoverer XIII off Hawaii marked the first time an American object had been retrieved from orbit in space...
...PETER POLAR San Juan...
...Staff Committee. NORAD directs some 50 fighter-interceptor squadrons, and has absorbed the former Air Defense Commands of the two countries. Most of the detection system's aircraft-seeking radar and all its missile-hunting antennas are poised toward the north, in logical anticipation of a possible polar strike. This leaves the U.S. flanks with little protection, despite the fact that many Soviet submarines have missiles that could reach at least 43 of the 50 largest U.S. cities, containing 85% of U.S. indus trial capacity. The Navy's antisubmarine net is not considered tight enough to fend...
...AUTONETICS, whose 1961 sales of $410 million place it among the nation's top ten electronics companies. Its specialty: inertial-navigation systems, one of which steered the nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate under the polar icecap...