Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Africa . . . inevitably it will mean Bantu domination over all," he cried to the throng gathered to celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...
...testing device known as the shock tube. The problems of nose-cone re-entry were fearsome enough on paper. It was understood all too well that an ICBM re-entry body of cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would be a high-pressure air layer reaching up to 15,000° F.-about 1½ times...
...passes over Kodiak, Alaska, where a radio control station sends an order that sets the guidance system on a new track, tilting it 60° from the horizontal. An electric impulse fires explosive bolts to kick off a re-entry capsule, a retrorocket slows the capsule's speed, a drag parachute pops out, a radio beacon shrills signals, and aluminum chaff is released to show on the radar screens of the recovery aircraft and ships waiting anxiously below. All this must be accomplished on a rigid time schedule with millisecond accuracy if the Discoverer is to be successfully recovered...
...have a chance of going into orbit around the moon, a space vehicle must make its approach at just the right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters...
After what Panama considers a high-speed vote count-it took two weeks to tabulate 242,000 ballots as compared, for example, to three months after the 1948 election-an electoral junta last week handed the presidency to the candidate of the government's opposition...