Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they interact hardly at all with known kinds of matter. They are generated copiously in the centers of stars, and they move with the speed of light as they slip out into space and pass right through any stars they happen to hit. It has been calculated that a stream of neutrinos could pass through 10 billion earths without being absorbed...
Outside the Yard, the beginning of a long stream of townspeople were entering St. Paul's Cathedral. Candles were lit, and thirty people, heads bowed against the pews, were praying...
...missile that blasted out of the clear blue Gulf Stream carried the U.S. nuclear navy into new positions of power. By passing its 13th successive successful test, its first from under water, the Polaris A3, latest addition to the nation's undersea arsenal, promised that U.S. submarines would soon make their patrols with vast new freedom. The A3, with an additional 1,000 miles of range, reaches out for 2,500 miles. Subs that are now restricted to prowling narrow waters close to the coast of Europe in order to keep their Polaris warheads within 1,500-mile range...
...more of it. The casing, already of glass fiber in the A2, has been improved by a new lining to protect it from the new fuel's greater heat. Instead of nozzles for steering, it uses liquid Freon injected into the side of the gas stream...
Autos, if anyone did not already know it, are having a boom year - and Chrysler, because of the management stream lining of Chairman George Love and President Lynn Townsend (TIME cover, Dec. 28), is reaping the rich rewards of a comeback champion. On a 40% sales increase, to $661 million, Chrysler's third-quarter earnings were up sevenfold to $22.8 million...