Word: keep
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Fail-Safe. At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable. Navy chemists know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner...
Even when underwater. Polaris submarines keep constant contact with the Navy's new. long-wave (very low frequency) transmitting stations. But since the ships are on their own, the Navy has an elaborate, secret "Fail-Safe'' countdown system that would prevent any captain, or any other officer who has cracked under the tension of his job, from declaring war on his own. One key provision: no missile can be fired without the joint order of the skipper and his executive officer...
...ocean patrol by 1965, with 30 on station at a time. This means constant coverage of 480 Soviet targets-from cities to airfields. In those 30 subs will be some 3,000 of the most highly trained members of the U.S. armed forces, whose dangerous business will be to keep the peace. Their faith in their job is spelled out in the Polaris submariner's variation on a theme by Oliver Cromwell: "Put your trust in the Lord and keep your deterrent mobile...
...excessive for a democratic nation, in circumstances as grave as these, to ask to be informed-and clearly." Yet even such senior Cabinet officers as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were still unsure of De Gaulle's ultimate aim: whether he still hopes to keep Algeria federated with France or is reconciled to its total independence...
...necessary to have the self-restraint to abide by a majority decision." With his control of top army commands, Gursel managed to get rid of the 14 relatively junior officers without resistance-though he prudently disconnected their home telephones before sending the police with the news. To keep them out of trouble, the 14 will be scattered abroad as "advisers" to Turkish embassies...