Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sights against missiles. Columbia University's Electronics Research Laboratories and the Air Force have developed a 3,000-mile, anti-missile radar-detection system, but huge appropriations and long months of testing are needed before it can be superimposed on NORAD's present defenses. Nike-Zeus and Wizard anti-missile missile systems, and an Air Force Special Weapons Center's proposal to use nuclear explosions as defense weapons against ICBMs in outer space, are similarly far from test stage. "The new system, the one we must have," says General Partridge, "will embrace the basic principles...
Bold Ruler broke on top. But everyone knew he had early foot. He also had Jockey Eddie Arcaro, a race-riding wizard with enough magic to boost a bag of bones out of the starting gate ahead of Man o' War. The big question: Could the Ruler run for a mile and a quarter? Jockey Arcaro never had to ask. Rounding the final turn, his mount had so much left that it hardly seemed like a horse race. Bold Ruler won in a breeze, 2¼ lengths in front of Gallant Man, 10¼ ahead of Round Table. Proud...
...this was a tribute to the cultivated taste and shrewd buying of a comparatively little-known French financial wizard who rarely paid over $10,000 for a painting, rarely made a bad buy. Born in Paris plain Leon Georges Levy, he early attracted the attention of the Rothschild family, who started him off as a clerk in the Rothschild bank, used him as a broker for their interests when he went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed...
...weaponry, the defensive missile system to stop the attacking missile. He plugged hard for an Army project called Nike Zeus-"which already partially exists in the form of research-and-development components"-as the basis for an anti-missile missile program, thus by inference downgrading the rival Air Force Wizard anti-missile project (as well as an Air Force Pentagon-corridor campaign to put the Army out of the defensive antiaircraft missile business altogether...
...successful TV technician is likely to be a college-trained mechanical wizard, a businessman and something of a psychologist. He spends his days rushing about to meet the demands of an infantile public that can't face the day without its favorite soap opera or wrestling match...