Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...underground explosion are shock waves, waves which are very similar to those of an earthquake. The experts concluded that a control system of 180 stations equipped with seismographs would be adequate to detect with "good probability" explosions of five kilotons or more. Such a system could also spot tests of smaller extent but with less reliability...
...clearly outclassed by Boston College and showed that it needed more unity in order to avoid similar humiliations. Against B.C. quarterbacks Charlie Kinney and Terry Bartolet proved to be talented passers although they were quickly rushed on every attempt. The playing of a few individuals was the only bright spot that afternoon and was a sign of things to come for the 1959 freshman...
Varsity coach John Yovicsin has also talked highly of captain Dick Diehl, who, along with Walt Kelley, was a bright spot in the freshman line...
John Damis and Roy Williams were very fast in the halfback positions, and Gil Bamford was outstanding as a fullback. Four other sophomores, Mike Adams, Tom Boone, Ted Halaby, and Grady Watts worked more than adequately in the pilot spot...