Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally: dealing, persuading, cajoling-all in an effort to shape a meaningful moderate bill whose basic purpose is to guarantee Negro voting rights in the South...
...Bravo (engine run-up), never beyond Coco (takeoff position on the runway). SAC does not fly cocked aircraft. Reason: any change in a plane's ground alert status is regarded as "uncocking" and lessens the alert capability. Alert planes returning from a practice mission would be in no shape for a real-life turn-around to actual war missions: if they were in the landing pattern when the klaxon sounded the real thing, they would have to be refueled and their crews would need rest. These planes are front-line sentries; to take them into the air would...
...nature, the U.S. is an underdog in Olympic hockey. Its team is a sometime thing, a pickup squad of former college stars who have retained enough interest in the game to stay in shape and to steal necessary time away from their careers. The Russians are more organized: their team is the cream of the most professional amateur hockey leagues in the world. So are the Canadians, by instinct and circumstance the world's best hockey players, who can draw their team from a galaxy of highly organized postgraduate amateur leagues...
...satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw. transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance and course...
...crippled MATS' 455-plane air fleet; two months ago MATS was forced to ground all its Wright Turbo Compound-powered Constellations because of maintenance problems, and it has kept its C124 Globe-masters in service only by cannibalizing disabled ships. MATS is in such sad shape that it will have to charter several dozen commercial aircraft for the airlift of 20,000 soldiers to next month's Army maneuvers in Puerto Rico and to fill holes left in the regular MATS system by diverting MATS planes to the maneuvers...