Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first balloon launched fell in the Pacific near the U.S. West Coast. The second followed a sinuous course, cruising southeast from Japan, passing south of Midway Island, then veering north to pass 900 miles north of Hawaii. It entered the U.S. near the Oregon-California boundary and finally landed near Jackson, Miss. The whole trip (roughly 10,000 miles) took three days and two hours. The balloon's maximum speed when pushed by the high-altitude jet stream was 200 m.p.h. The third balloon cannot be located because of instrument failure, but the next four were launched successfully. When...
While the Williams meeting was in progress, the World Council of Churches met in Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations...
...orbit selected for the satellite is 40° from the equator, and the rocket will be fired toward the southeast to take advantage of the earth's rotation. Instead of following a true circle, which would keep it at a single level in the earth's high atmosphere, the satellite will move in an ellipse (oval), rising to 800 miles altitude, then descending to 200 miles. It will pass around the earth every 90 minutes, and since the earth will be turning beneath it, the satellite will pass over different areas during each circuit. It will eventually cover...
...limited demonstration on the order of their seizure of Yikiang off the Tachens in January 1955 is possible-even probable. Logical place for it would be a small island group known colloquially as the 'White Dogs' eleven miles southeast of the Matsus. They are hardly worth expensive defense. Yet their fall would imperil the Matsus, and if accompanied by passive U.S. acquiescence, would severely shake our Formosa position...
Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast Asia...