Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass, Robertson can often do the job by himself. The instant his opponent lets his weight fall on the wrong foot, Robertson takes a giant step and starts to move like a sports car slamming into gear. Crouched over the ball, his left arm thrust out as a shield, Robertson maneuvers through the melee under the hoop until, in one blurred motion, he rises from the floor to hang alone in mid-air like a puppet on a string. At last he shoots-a precise, gentle release of the ball that is cocked behind his right ear, a final flick...
...Talking to Us!" Then came an anxious moment. Had Chimp No. 65 survived? The capsule's heat shield had disappeared, and its landing-shock bag was torn. Air Force Veterinarian Major Richard Benson stood close beside the mechanics as they took off the capsule's hatch. From inside came a whimpering sound. "He's alive!" cried Major Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam...
...human astronauts who have been selected to ride in Project Mercury's spacecraft. If it had been completely successful, one of them would have been scheduled to take a similar ride in a few months. But the erratic launching behavior, the loss of retrorockets and heat shield, and the seepage of sea water into the capsule will almost surely persuade NASA to use more chimps before risking...
...arms race goes on as it has, we are left to ponder not if, but when, a nuclear war will occur. Our choice is between great change and great ruin. In order to survive we have either to avert an attack or to shield ourselves from its effects. Since anti-missile defense does not exist, protection means going underground in shelters. Secret reports to the President have urged this sort of "passive defense;" a well-known atomic scientist recommends it on television; and Herman Kahn has recently dedicated a book to the idea...
...history, that great majorities can be poisoned and ruined by a single person and in gratitude will in their turn poison and ruin honest people - that a majority which has once been lied to can go on wanting to be lied to, and raises ever new liars on its shield, as if it were only one single conscious and resolute scoundrel...