Word: vulcanization
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...wise critical deponent should say nothing, lest The Wrath of the Trekkies descend on him for spoiling the story they have been so eagerly anticipating for two years. What can be freely stated, given the fact that Leonard Nimoy himself directed the film, is that the fate of Vulcan's favorite son is treated with the highest seriousness...
...Street, Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions-the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father of Zeus. Astrologers recommended variously Isis, Vulcan, Lilith. Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...forces, even though they do not have their own nuclear warheads (these would be supplied by the U.S. during a crisis) and have ranges shorter than a number of Soviet missiles that do not show up in the U.S.S.R.'s tally. The Kremlin gives equal weight to vintage British Vulcan bombers, which are practically candidates for an aeronautical museum, and their own Backfire, one of the most potent planes in the Soviet air force. Soviet charts also equate France's S-2 and S-3 ballistic missiles with the SS-20, which has three times as many warheads and almost...
...sent 1.5 million gal. of aviation fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties...
...well as ground forces. If necessary, Britain would move the Argentine prisoners to the United Kingdom until its demands were met. If the junta launched another invasion of the islands, or even continued air strikes, the Thatcher government would attack Argentine airbases on the mainland with long-range Vulcan bombers and commando raids...