Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proving that the U.S.S.R. has many a missile woe of its own, U.S. intelligence reported that the Soviets failed in two attempts to launch key missiles during their recent test series (in which they also successfully lobbed a pair of ICBMs onto a bull's-eye in the mid-Pacific). U.S. monitors in the Middle East picked up the countdowns between Jan. 15 and Feb. 1, but could not tell whether the two birds blew up or the tests failed for other causes...
...showers of depth charges, as troops in full battle dress moved up to the bleak Patagonian shoreline, as the Puerto Madryn air and naval base at the gulf's head went on a war footing, as U.S. planes rushed emergency equipment to the scene, the skeptics stopped in mid-snicker. Most important of all, President Arturo Frondizi took it seriously, and presumably the navy would not dare to mislead...
...Pentagon itself was impressed by some sobering reports on the second Soviet missile firing in mid-Pacific. Last week's long-range shot into an area 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu was seen and monitored by a U.S. Navy plane crew, proved that the Russian ICBM is indeed very sophisticated. As the missile bore in at a re-entry angle of 18° (which indicated that the Soviets fired at maximum range), a capsulelike object was detached from the nose cone and dipped into the ocean. Both hit near the middle of a triangle of three Soviet ships...
...Magician (Swedish). Something of a magician himself, brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman unfolds an eerie tale of a mid-19th century Mesmer, generates the dark and dazzling confusion with which he delights his audiences...
...reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind, war, and lately by the floodlights of cigarette-ad photographers. In World War II, Geoffrey Peace...