Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...What's the extent of high-energy radiation, the density of cosmic dust, the temperature, the quality of magnetic fields? What's the weather like?" And the answers, delivered by radio into machines on the rotating earth will push the dialogue onward, enabling man one day to launch himself into space...
...street and start on the public library." As in Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia, which hastily passed harsh anti-trespassing laws after the outbreak of sit-ins, Alabama's response to new Negro tactics ultimately comes to heavy-handed justice and last-resort fire hoses. If Negroes should launch an economic boycott of downtown stores, along the lines of their successful boycott of segregated buses four years ago, Montgomery's whites would hit back hard. Yet, short of closing every Negro college, the South cannot crush the challenge posed by young Negro college men and women. The old answers...
...Brasilia the two Presidents issued a platitude-clouded statement reaffirming hemispheric solidarity, then flew down to Rio and a picture-book welcome. At Galeao Airport, the peripatetic President boarded a white-hulled launch for the ceremonial trip across the beautiful harbor to the city. As his launch passed a line of 14 freshly painted naval vessels,* the crews raised their white caps high and gave a traditional Brazilian navy greeting-seven "Vivas." An informal flotilla of small craft trailed in Ike's wake, a swarm of helicopters chop-chopped overhead, and along the seawall a long formation of white...
Once safe in space, a missile or satellite is hard to find (see above). But when it is first launched, its booster looses an enormous amount of heat that shines far out into space as a blaze of infrared radiation. At Cape Canaveral last week the U.S. attempted to launch its first reconnaissance satellite designed to take advantage of this fact. Called Midas (from Missile Defense Alarm System), the satellite carried infrared detectors, which will pick up a missile's hot exhaust trail as it rises above the hazy, moisture-laden lower atmosphere. From a satellite on a high...
Danger No. 1 is what Herter called "war by miscalculation" - the possibility, for example, that one side might try to launch a surprise attack in a mistaken belief that the other side was preparing one. To guard against the miscalculation danger, the U.S. is working toward "safe guards against surprise attack," including "aerial and mobile ground inspection." During a time of crisis, inspection teams might prevent a nuclear war by "helping to verify that neither side was preparing a surprise attack upon the other." Danger No. 2 arises from the prospect that as time goes by more and more nations...