Word: windscreen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst hazard turned out to be people. Natives in Tanzania amused themselves by laying logs across the road. In Kenya, two natives hurled a rock through the windscreen of Kenyan John Greenly's Datsun, knocking him unconscious. By rally's end, only 49 out of the 91 cars were still running, and two dozen drivers were nursing injuries. The winning car: a French Peugeot 404 driven by two Tanzanians, Bert Shankland and Chris Roth well. Said Shankland, with masterly understatement: "We didn't do it for the money-we did it for the excitement...
...closes to keep weather out. American Motors' AMX Dream Car uses a cantilevered roof to do away with corner posts, boasts 240° visibility, and makes a stab at bringing back the old rumble seat with a back bench that uses the swing-up rear window as a windscreen. With busy businessmen in mind, Chrysler turned its 1966 Imperial Crown coupe into an experimental Mobile Executive car by installing a front passenger seat that swivels around for conferences, a folding table and typewriter for paperwork, a dictating machine, TV and two telephones...
This weird and dangerous gadget, weighing 250 lbs., was gingerly set on the nose of an Air Force Atlas-Agena rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The reflector ports were open to keep the nuclear action from starting, and a conical windscreen covered the reactor to protect it from buffeting as it climbed swiftly through dense, low-altitude...
When the rocket cleared the atmosphere, the windscreen was jettisoned; the reactor and its conical support section went into orbit 800 miles above the earth. As soon as SNAP's scientists were convinced that the proper orbit had been attained, they sent a signal that told the reflector mechanism to reduce neutron leakage. Slowly the nuclear reaction started; heat built up in the core, and a magnetic pump circulated the metallic coolant at 1020°F. through tubes in the skin of the support structure. The inner ends of 2880 pellets of a germanium-silicon material were heated while...
...squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy and jumped. I felt the parachute shock an instant before my feet hit the trees-we were that low. That was my closest call, ever...