Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...doesn't see things in the black-and-white terms that Dulles did," says a department policy planner. Faced with Soviet bluster, Dulles was inclined to gather newsmen for an off-record session, gaze at the ceiling, click his tongue and colorfully rebuke Khrushchev. Herter replies with greater speed, and usually with a documented statement that catches the Russians by the specifics. Yet, far from abandoning Dulles' style entirely, Herter has actually stepped up the jet-flying diplomacy essential to Western alliances. In his first year Dulles traveled 78,027 miles at home and abroad; Herter...
...fast-paced Polaris project, a full three years ahead of original schedule, was pushed even harder as the Navy shifted $52 million from other shipbuilding and reserve funds to speed seven nuclear subs now under construction, advanced operational dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of 18 nuclear Polaris subs (by 1964) will berth and load missiles at a new $26.5 million base seven miles above the Charleston, S.C. harbor on the Cooper River. At dedication ceremonies last week, Rear Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, chief of the Polaris project, looked confidently beyond the Polaris...
...favorite habitat of CAT is close to the jet stream, the narrow belt of high-speed wind that snakes around the earth from west to east in mid-latitudes, often reaching 250 m.p.h. The turbulent region below the jet stream may begin as low as 15,000 ft., increasing in roughness as it nears the stream (which is not itself normally turbulent) at an average of about 30,000 ft. Another layer of CAT rides on top of the stream, reaching to 40,000 ft. There is normally some turbulence on both sides of the jet stream, but the north...
...most respected. Gray's taste in salesmen runs to those with a calculatingly homey counterside manner, men known at every crossroads store from New Mexico to Alaska for their friendliness, their willingness to set up displays and help the retailer in any task, their speed in filling cigarette orders. Result: the retailer often gives them a helping hand in turn, awards them choice display space. As one who knows the value of a quick flash report from the field on a new competitive situation, Gray answers his own phone, has long had standing orders that any salesman can call...
...luxurious superliner of Britain's maritime fleet. It is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s 45,000-ton, $42 million superliner, Canberra. Sailing for P. & O., which coined the word "posh,"-the 740-ft. Canberra will be one of the poshest ships afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines aft to give passengers more deck space, the liner will carry as many passengers as Cunard's Queen Elizabeth...