Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first crude nukes are believed to be joining the Soviet fleet, but the long-dreaded day of reckoning is still somewhere in the future. During the last decade, A.S.W. (antisubmarine warfare) has taken giant strides. Killing systems no longer rely on shortrange, slow-acting depth charges. Today the standard sub killer is the torpedo, lugged to the vicinity of its prey by an airplane, helicopter, rocket or another submarine. Once in the water it does not need to be aimed; it "homes" on its victim, following its evasive twisting far into the depths...
...Toned Sonar. Biggest change of all is in the business of sub detection. The search for hidden subs still depends largely on sonar (underwater sound waves), but there has been an important switch: low-power, high-frequency sound has been replaced by low-frequency waves of enormous power...
...government and the party during the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...
...five Soviet submarines moved out of the Adriatic and were sighted moving through the English Channel en route to Russia. Western intelligence experts are not yet sure of the significance of the move, but they consider it conceivable that the Russians may have decided to shut down their big sub base and shelters built into the rocky cliffs of Albania's coast...
...team of X-15 jockeys - Test Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White -the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris...