Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop the missile on target (in lox missiles this is accomplished by turning off a valve). The Navy says it has solved this problem in the laboratories and on test vehicles, admits it has yet to test it out on a missile...
...past two years Stanford Physicist Robert Hofstadter, 42, has been probing the neutron by firing electrons down Stanford's 220-ft. accelerator at target nuclei of gaseous hydrogen and other elements. The electrons bounced off, said Hofstadter, "like tennis balls thrown at a target...
...missile-age warfare, a military commander will have only minutes to launch his rockets before a target moves on-or attacks him first. Last week the Army Signal Corps announced an ingenious electronic device that will tell him whenever a target appears: the RP-71, a flying robot that can take off from a launching rig, spy on the enemy from altitudes up to 3,000 ft. at more than 200 m.p.h...
...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...
...been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...