Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...towards the end, after his most famous speech, when he says, "A turn or two I'll walk, To still my beating mind," he puts the fingers of both hands to his temples; few actors can bring this gesture off, but Carnovsky makes you know he has an attack of migraine. He can also bring sense and conviction to those vexatious little repetitions like "so, so, so" (Othello twice has to give out "O! O! O!," and Lear even expires saying "Never, never, never, never, never!"--as a matter of fact. Carnovsky would seem to be ready to attempt Lear...
...Pennsylvania politics, who was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1920 to 1948, a National Committeewoman for 23 years, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936 to 1938, only woman member of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense during World War II; of a heart attack; in Dalton...
...walk to save electricity. A destroyer that makes sonar contact can hover over such a sub for hours, dropping slow-sinking depth charges. But the nuclear submarines-called "nukes"-can cruise underwater for weeks at top speed. When a destroyer makes sonar contact with one of them, it must attack instantly or its nimble prey will dodge and speed away. Only a quick-acting, long-range weapon has much chance of killing a nuke...
ASROC, developed by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. under the direction of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, can attack a submerged submarine almost as soon as it is detected by sonar. The boxlike launcher on the destroyer contains eight missiles. A digital computer, with superhuman speed, notes the roll, pitch, course and speed of the ship and the speed and direction of the wind...
...protect it against enemy attack, the Titan must be stored underground, and requires a complex of elevator platforms, guidance antennas, fuel-storage and loading systems, and interconnecting tunnels. Once the alert comes, the missile is fueled in minutes and readied for firing. When the word is given, massive doors open at ground level and the Titan begins to emerge, rises until it is ready to blast off on its 5,500-mile journey...