Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clubs throughout the country and many favorable letters reflect alumni satisfaction with Yovicsin's new approach to Harvard football. But Yovicsin wants to see improvement next year and is certain that a better season will be had in 1958. "It requires a lot of planned work to develop a solid team, but it can be done, and well, in Ivy League. We hope to make...
...With increased missile funds in sight, the Navy promised a step-up in the target date-now 1962-on its Polaris, a solid-fuel, 1,500-mile IRBM that can be fired from a submarine...
...neither the Army (with Nike-Zeus) nor the Air Force (with its Wizard anti-missile project) has yet drawn complete plans or even formulated solid concepts for countering ballistic missiles. Far more demanding than the anti-missile itself is development of the fully integrated and highly automatic system required-in the limited time available -to detect an ICBM on its way. track it, predict its trajectory and, at the proper instant, launch an intercept missile with nuclear or thermonuclear warhead. And what is the proper instant? When the missile is still in outer space? Or after it has slowed within...
...buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what it meant to be a Kennedy: she broke an ankle playing touch football. But she has become part of the solid front the Kennedys present to the world, even to the point of indulging in masterful oversimplification in defending father Joe against charges that he runs his children's careers. "You'd think he was a mastermind playing chess," says Jackie, "when actually he's a nice...
Sharper Than a Knife. Nobody knows how ultrasound achieves most of its effects. But its use in neurology at Iowa City has a solid base in years of painstaking research. Physicist William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus...