Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom bomb, combines two new Navy weapons: the swift, deep-swimming nuclear submarine, and the intermediate-range, shipboard-type ballistic missile, Polaris. Such a mating would permit the far-ranging nuclear subs, lying submerged offshore at vital points around the Eurasian land mass, to launch thermonuclear missiles at any target within 1,500 miles of their position, and be all but immune to counterattack...
...bankroll of $37 million for a start. "Red" Raborn, who moves so fast that he will only drink instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded up a 45-man special-projects staff, set up his offices in the old Munitions Building in Washington. He made a target date of 1963, put his men and contractors to work on system-development projects that enveloped the whole weapon-a new kind of nuclear sub, fuels, missiles, guidance networks, navigation...
...call Nehru. Less interested in making loaded impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field-hockey matches, a horse show, small-game shooting, a glider flight. A slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling foe, V. K. Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister. Asked by a cameraman to keep...
Control by Blow-Off. To hit a distant target accurately, a long-range ballistic missile must be steered in the right direction and must attain the right speed. If it is traveling 23,000 ft. per sec. (15,600 m.p.h.), an error of I ft. per sec. in its top speed will make it miss its target by 500 yds. So when the desired speed has been reached, the thrust must be cut off accurately in a small fraction of a second. This is not too difficult with liquid-fuel rockets, whose thrust can be cut by shutting...
KOHLER STRIKE, longest in U.S. history, is next target of Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate special investigating committee. Aim is to pinpoint acts of violence since U.A.W. struck Wisconsin plumbing-fixture firm 46 months ago. Top witnesses: Kohler Boss Herbert V. Kohler, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther...