Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motion, and concentrate his strength for power plays. Thus, while Harvard fans who have watched Rutgers and Dartmouth might expect to see the wide open man in motion attack, they will get little of it today--except of course when Levi Jackson makes like a jet-propelled rocket around the ends...
...Readers Dietrich & Deutsch take a longer look at the diagram. The arrow shows the direction of the rocket's flight to Venus, not the direction of the takeoff. Since the earth moves 18.5 m.p.s. and the rocket is fired in the opposite direction at 8 m.p.s., the net speed of the rocket is 10.5 m.p.s. in the direction of the earth's motion...
...without atomic warheads) have made the British Isles indefensible against a power holding the Continent. Looking far ahead, military men (who must visualize World War III even as statesmen struggle with the peace) realize that the U.S.British defense system must find other strategic strong points. In a stratospheric rocket war, the best offense may be a deep defense...
Ocean, but the field of rocket fire would stretch south to the protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
...Rocket-line distance from Khartoum toTeheran (on the Persian plateau, Alexander the Great's classic Indian invasion route) is only 1,700 miles. Longest wartime rocket flight was about 200 miles, by a German V2. The V-2 launched in New Mexico last September had a theoretical range of 1,500 miles. Designed, but still dependent on solution of fuel problems, are 3,500-mile rockets. Other rocket-line distances from the African girdle: Khartoum to Suez, 950 miles; Kenya to Moscow, 4,000 miles; Lake Chad to Munich, 2,200 miles; Khartoum to Sofia, 1,800 miles...