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...years ago, NORAD had no way to locate either missiles or satellites. Now, under the prodding of General Laurence Sherman Kuter, 56, commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces from 1957 to 1959, NORAD can do both. At Thule, Greenland, two powerful beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land...
NORAD has also completed a four-station, $113 million Eastern extension to its 4½-year-old Distant Early Warning radar, which now stretches some 4,500 miles across the Arctic to provide aircraft detection. Just supplying the DEW line takes $14 million a year, involves 45,000 tons of cargo, shipped by air, tankers, LSTs and barges. Backing up the DEW lines are the mid-Canada line of radar stations on the 55th parallel, along with gap-plugging, low-altitude radar eyes spotted throughout the U.S. and Canada, seagoing picket ships, airborne radar and Texas towers...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
...Arctic Hunters...
Promised Land. No matter how hard the Antarctic scientists work, they know that they have barely scratched the surface of the continent's mysteries. Meteorologists are trying to explain why the Antarctic does not start to warm up, as the Arctic does, before the sun rises in spring, would like to know whether the Antarctic ice will increase or shrink if the earth's climate gets warmer. Other areas to be explored are multitude-the ice sheet, weather, temperatures, winds, communications, geology...