Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West's rights to fly the disputed airlanes. Many Western officers think Russia will one day walk out of the Safety Center, leaving the Western planes to fly through the corridors unannounced, and mingle dangerously with Communist aircraft in the area. Then the West will have its signal of real trouble ahead in the skies around Berlin...
...strike back? It certainly can. Some U.S. ICBMs are now ready to fly, and nuclear submarines are already at sea. each carrying 16 Polaris missiles ready to fire on signal. Other missiles, such as Thors and Matadors, are set to strike at Soviet centers from close-in European and Asian bases. The 6-523 and 6-473 of the Strategic Air Command are poised to make a massed attack across most Soviet borders. Many of them can surely get through, and a single 6-52 carries enough explosive to wreck any city on earth...
...outdoor amphitheater at Williamsburg, Va., Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence downstage left. In Boone, N.C., Daniel Boone stalks around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto...
...through the marshes of the Mekong Delta or dart silently along jungle paths of South Viet Nam, pursuing their intent, murderous missions. On the road from Banmethuot last week, one band melted into the shadows as two members of the National Assembly approached in their Jeep. Then, at a signal from their leader, they raised their ancient rifles, clubs and swords and pounced with bloodcurdling cries. Seconds later, the two assemblymen lay dead, and the grim struggle to keep the Communists from winning South Viet Nam had claimed two more victims...
...Signal Corps captain assigned to collecting Nazi documents received a manuscript alleged to be a copy of this unpublished work. Transferred with a mountain of other captured documents to Washington archives under the number EAP 105/40, the manuscript was all but forgotten. Scholarly sleuths from Munich's Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History-TIME, Dec. 7, 1959) finally tracked it down, discovered that the University of Michigan's Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg had beaten them...