Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to give my 13-year-old son a .22-cal. rifle for Christmas-provided that his first target would be our TV set. The bargain was duly carried out. His grades have improved ; he spends more time in our workshop; and none of us miss the delights of television in the slightest degree. Want to borrow our rifle, anyone...
...presence of the most monstrous potential new weapon in the U.S. arsenal-designed to be fired 5,500 miles along a ballistic trajectory reaching 500 miles above the surface of the earth at speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h., to plunge an H-bomb warhead into an enemy target. Under the shroud was Atlas, the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile...
...there are developing the Air Force's "cruise" missiles, the Northrop Snark and perhaps the North American Navaho, in effect advanced unmanned airplanes of 5,000 miles range which, unlike the ICBM, can be controlled by their mechanism on their infinitely slower way all the way to the target. The Air Force is also developing Rascal, a promising supersonic air-to-surface missile; Thor, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile; and Titan, a second design for an ICBM. The Navy has a costly but promising project to develop Polaris, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile which will carry...
...when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often painfully, where the program is lagging. "The successes and failures of all departments get a good airing," Schriever says. "We try to take...
...major vessels shut down and their blood bypassed to the machine, the heart goes somewhat limp, but keeps on beating because it continues to receive some blood through minor channels. This can be a serious problem: the surgeon wielding his needle holder has to "take aim on a moving target." Moreover, stitches inserted while the heart muscle is tense may tear out. So surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic, headed by Donald Brian Effler, adopted the technique of injecting a heart-stopping chemical, potassium citrate, to let them operate on a completely stilled, relaxed heart. When the clamps are removed...