Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start, Bennie Castillo turned the key that started the countdown. With cool efficiency, his five-man team rolled back a hangar-like shelter, elevated the bird, force-fed it with liquid oxygen, sent it soaring in 19 min. after the launch command was given (ultimate goal: 15 min.). The shot traveled the predetermined 1,450 miles over the Pacific, was rated a nuclear bull's eye by hitting within five miles of its target. The Vandenberg shot pointed up the fact that both Thor and military launching crews are well on their way to full operational status and readiness...
...Cape Canaveral, only 4½ hours after the Vandenberg shot at the other edge of the U.S., another Thor leaped from its pad carrying a nuclear warhead (minus fissionable material) and a triggering mechanism in its nose, scored an equally good...
...weapons system called the Bold Orion. Slated for the Strategic Air Command, the revolutionary nuclear-tipped missile will prolong the useful life of SAC bombers by enabling them to fire at targets 1,000 miles distant-from points outside an enemy's radar screen. Last week's shot, fired by a supersonic B58 Hustler (whose sonic boom startled beach residents) was a one-stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier, was launched from a B-47 at a target 700 miles away. The Bold Orion...
...wounding both with one shotgun blast-or maybe more than one. Convicted of two violations of a federal law prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked: If a man locked a door to keep out several federal officers, would he "commit...
...steel wall. The blasting air stream broke his right arm, fractured his pelvis, pulled apart the ligaments of his left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again...