Hit or Miss Proposition Missilemen Face Map Problems
Washington reports that long range missiles face errors from wind gravity and map accuracy. Differences in earth circumference and incomplete global mapping hinder precise targeting. Satellites may aid cartography but no perfect orbital reference exists yet for reliable missile strikes.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Wik Puetinen Ee’ Losition
Moscow
Air Force
Cheyenne
Wyo
Earth
Panama
Oceans
Eura
Six Months Without Sun Foretells Polar Dread
Dr Paul D Siple recalls living a year at the South Pole where six months of darkness and record cold tested 19 men. IGY crews push into a dangerous night to aid scientific knowledge as winter lasts March to September.
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Paul D. Siple
Siple
South Pole
U.S. Army
Daylight Saving Time Originator William Willett Remembered
London, 1915 obituary recalls William Willett, the English builder who championed daylight saving. He proposed shifting clock hours to match daylight, publishing The Waste of Daylight, courting lawmakers, and gaining limited early support before World War I finally enacted the plan in 1916.
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London
William Willett
Willett
Ota
Britain
Petts Wood
Chislehurst
Willette
Kent
Pogo Creator Walt Kelly to Speak at UNC
CHAPEL HILL The Carolina Forum will host Walt Kelly creator of Pogo for an illustrated lecture on Not So Square a World at the University of North Carolina Hill Hall on Thursday May 8 at 8 p.m. The talk draws on a 90 day world tour and plans for a new book.
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Chapel Hill
Carolina Forum
Walt Kelly
Pogo
University of North Carolina
Hill Hall
Kelly
National Cartoonists Society
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