Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions were even more urgent than Captain Gralla knew when Norton Sound set off on Project Argus: two 100-mile-high atomic explosions carried out by the U.S. in August at Johnston Island in the mid-Pacific caused heavy interference with radio and radar over a distance of 700 miles...
...pushing Norton Sound at 95% of full power, even through the iceberg-menaced waters around Cape Horn, Captain Gralla reached the South Atlantic rendezvous three days ahead of schedule. Picking up first the Falkland Islands and then Tarawa on radar, he radioed a signal: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Replied Admiral Mustin from the carrier: "Greetings from 3,000 shellbacks." Back came Gralla: "Six hundred and fifty horned shellbacks are ready to shoot...
Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...
...black sheet metal from which sharp, whitewashed metal fragments on wire stems sprouted like weird abstract flowers. Driven by hidden electric motors, they jiggled, skittered and bounced. Some spun like mad pinwheels, others rotated gravely like segments of an ear trying vainly to reassemble itself. Most were accompanied by sound effects as hidden camshafts thumped cowbells or old teakettles. The opening was notable for three eulogies read simultaneously by three admirers ("An apparatus of Tinguely is useless. An apparatus of Jean Tinguely is meaningful. An apparatus of Tinguely moves only to move...
...vast investments in other stocks and Canadian real estate. Still he wants more. Recently he tried to merge Universal with Underwood Corp., got a cool reception and retreated. What makes Lou Chesler run? Answers Chesler: "I just cannot resist the challenge of an obvious business opportunity. Though this may sound corny, I'm also interested in deals like General Development that may do people some good in human terms." Then he grins: "Of course, I may go broke. But I don't think I will...