Word: countdowns
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...named Nathaniel Welch of Auburn, Ala., to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, appointed four members to the Battle of Lake Erie Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, notified Philadelphia that the Navy would name a Polaris submarine after Benjamin Franklin, made a phone call that commenced a year-long mechanical countdown toward the 1964 opening of the New York World's Fair...
Premature Countdown. Last week, on the eve of what they thought would be the end of the strike, the Times and the Trib announced that they were doubling their prices to a dime-something the Trib has been itching to do for years but could not face as long as its chief rival sold for a nickel. To herald its return, the Trib printed a giveaway, four-page "appetizer" edition advising New Yorkers in bold headlines to COUNT THE HOURS TILL WE'RE BACK...
...this automatic navigation system constantly feeds position readings into the guidance system of all 16 missiles. At every dip and turn of the sub, its missile brains know the ship's location, local vertical, true North, target location and trajectory to be flown. In this underseas base, the countdown is always...
...Countdown. If a coded war message came through, Captain Paul L. Lacy Jr., a 42-year-old Texan, and his executive officer would open a safe in the presence of still a third officer. The captain and the exec carry different keys, and it requires both keys to open the safe. Inside the safe the officers would find specific orders, keyed to the coded message...
...bulk of the season's books appear to have been written in an afternoon, then printed early next morning. There are countless books filled with topical trivia, like Countdown for Cindy, the story of a blushing girl astronaut. There are stacks of books so eerily old-fashioned that their manuscripts must have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert...