Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAVING no "front page" for all the important stories, or any back pages in which to tuck away inconsequential news, we feel that all stories-whether about new books or old music-must compete for their share of our space, and jealous editors have a way of contending that the news of their field, whether science or Latin America or art, matters most...
Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their dugout canoes like racing shells along the jungle streams, decked in white-feathered headdresses, and holding their spears in light-fingered readiness, they are pictorially...
...lacrosse team faces M.I.T. today they will be a little weaker than the team that bested the Engineers by 12 goals a year ago, while the Engineers are certain to field a much stronger team. The result may well lead to what coach Bruce Munro terms a "nip and tuck game situation...
...send the missiles around the U.S. so that no enemy could zero in on them. But it turned out that the rail-riding Minuteman would increase costs by 60%; and last fortnight, after spending $108 million on the project, the Defense Department canceled the railroad scheme, decided to tuck all Minutemen underground...