Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shocking Breach. Had any of this information turned up in time, NSA might have checked more closely on its men. But there had been an even more obvious signal for caution. When a U.S.A.F. C-130 plane was shot down near Soviet Armenia in 1958, Martin and Mitchell were convinced that the plane and its crew were involved in espionage, were offended with the U.S. claim that the plane had been attacked in innocent flight. They took their suspicions to Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays, who had spoken out against the secrecy surrounding the C-130 flight. A cursory glance...
...hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb Elliott, 22. sprinted down the middle of the track and broke the tape...
...again. When Lumumba suddenly announced plans to fly to Stanleyville to demonstrate "how peaceful everything there is." a rumor swept the waiting crowd that Belgian paratroops were coming to grab the Premier. At that unfortunate moment, a U.S. Air Force Globemaster roared in to Stanleyville from Toronto, carrying Canadian signal equipment and personnel. Surrounding the plane, the howling mob dragged out the eight American crewmen, beating them with rifle butts and sticks. U.N. Ethiopian troops rescued three of the Americans and several bruised Canadians whom the Congolese had hauled off to prison. But in the meantime, other Congolese troops...
...rescue. Aboard the Haiti Victory, 100 miles away, observers pinpointed Discoverer's position by radar, dispatched a helicopter to the scene. As the helicopter hovered 10 ft. above the choppy Pacific, Frogman Robert Carroll leaped into the ocean, strapped a cable to the bobbing satellite and gave the signal to lift away. Discoverer XIII-"Lucky Thirteen"-had returned safely to earth. Said Lockheed's Missile Chief Herschel Brown: "The U.S. has accomplished an unprecedented first. The Russians have attempted a recovery orbit and failed. We have succeeded-and we feel pretty darned good...
When the time came for the real test last week, Polaris and her crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door atop a missile tube swung open. A small, explosive charge ruptured the plastic membrane that protected the bird from sea water, and a great blast of compressed air sent it rocketing toward the surface and its remarkable flight...