Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban port of its captain's own choosing. Similarly, Cuba-bound cargo aircraft would be intercepted and forced to land at a U.S. airport for inspection, or be shot down. As for Soviet submarines, they would be sought out by radar and sonar. U.S. forces would signal an unidentified sub by dropping some "harmless" depth charges while radioing the code letters IDKCA, the international signal meaning "rise to the surface." Any submarine that ignored the order would be depth-charged for keeps...
...long obvious that the big (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.), handsome naval officer-among other things, he is called "Gorgeous George"-was headed for big things.* He flew Grumman fighters from the carrier Lexington, was a landing signal officer on the carrier Yorktown, executive officer of a squadron of PBY patrol planes. In 1943, he saw action in the Pacific as navigator and tactical officer aboard the newly commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer...
Tangible Menace. This dramatic expression of hemisphere solidarity was the end of a long, patient road for the U.S., and a signal victory for Dean Rusk. Time after time in past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly...
...least seven other East German refugees made it across last week. One man jumped from a rooftop to an elevated railway signal tower, then scrambled across the tracks to leap 20 feet into the waiting arms of West Berlin cops. Another suffered eight fractures when he stepped on a Communist land mine on the border, nevertheless crawled 13 hours through forests to reach the West...
...example, she said, take Jo Schirra, 38, whose husband Walter recently returned home safely after orbiting the earth six times. At one point in the program an admiral thoughtfully reassured the spacemen's wives that if by any chance the parachute failed and the capsule sank, an explosive signal device would automatically detonate, thus alerting recovery forces. "Oh?" said Jo. "So they'll know where to drop the wreath...