Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...
...their molehole quarters, Bulli and his men sleep, lounge, eat in a special mess hall (no highly seasoned or gas-forming foods). They keep in touch with their families by phone (most frequent request: bring laundry to the base), often find, as one officer says, that alert duty is usually the time that "your furnace at home goes out or the dog gets lost, or your wife gets moody on the phone." There is no time for boredom. Some sit in seclusion in locked-door study rooms, poring over target data (they never discuss targets with other crews; no crew...
...voices with any detectable talent. Glowed Papa Sinatra approvingly: "I'm very pleased. It's good to have another singer in the family, because I'm getting tired." Then Nancy winged east to New Jersey, where she was on hand at McGuire Air Force Base early one morning, when Mr. Rock 'n' Roll himself, Sergeant Elvis Presley, got off a plane from West Germany to be mustered out of the Army after a two-year draftee stint. Nancy was indulging no secret crush on Elvis, just helping build up a TV singeroo slated for early...
...also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif...
...many economists that the U.S. must speed up just to keep pace with the giant strides of the past. Last week in a calm, carefully documented report, James W. Knowles, longtime (ten years) staff economist for the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, reported that the assumption is away off base. The U.S. economy gained only an average 2.9% annually in gross national product in the half century between 1909 and 1959, after taking into account inflationary price rises that average 2⅓% a year (TIME, Feb. 2, 1959). Considering the nature of today's economy, the U.S. can expect...