Word: slenderness
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...Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., with a Westinghouse Electric Corp. nuclear engine, the Skipjack is the consummation of a long program to give the U.S. its first true submersible designed primarily for underwater work. Conventional diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time on the surface, are long and slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with...
Also unearthed was a "Venus" stone carving, which may have been related to some sort of "fertility cult." Unlike most "Venuses" of this type, which are usually of very obese women with gross stomachs and breasts, this specimen is more slender and graceful...
JUST as the Eisenhower Administration and the Air Force were pretty well convinced that the U.S. could see itself safely through the "missile gap" of the early 1960s with Strategic Air Command bombers and a slender intercontinental missile program, Air Force missilemen turned up in Washington last week with a warning and a plan. The warning: reliance on plane-borne SAC will not surely give the U.S. the deterrent it needs. The plan: step up production of the well-tested Atlas missile. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Atlas...
Girls, every one on slender shoulders taking journalistic responsibility, attended first meeting of CRIMSON'S famed, historic competition, held in fabled, cluttered news room, one-Time, embryonic home of many a now-kudoed newsman...
...Rising to man's estate Down Under, Spain's slender Andrés Gimeno, 21, won the Western Australian men's tennis title by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over St. Louis' improving Earl ("Butch") Buchholz, 18, tag-along member of the victorious U.S. Davis Cup squad, flashed a game so crisp and deft that the experts were saying he might become the world's best...