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...latest work the Princeton physicists exceeded their own expectations. The addition of four high-power "neutral beam" injectors, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pumped extra energy into the hot plasma, and a shrewd switch to graphite from tungsten in critical components of the torus' vacuum chamber reduced heat loss. The director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Melvin Gottlieb, is now convinced that the break-even point can be reached with Princeton's new and bigger torus, slated to begin operation...
...meantime, even more exotic weapons are on their way. In the annual "Arms Control Impact Statements," released last week, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency hinted alarmingly at future "space wars" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that would be waged with lasers and particle beam weapons. Whether the SALT process will ever be able to limit these devices is debatable...
Microwave landing systems are already used by the military, and will eventually replace the narrow-beam instrument landing devices employed at commercial airports with ones that provide a much larger and more flexible landing approach area (see diagram). Planes under instrument landing control are now brought through the approach area to the runway one at a time in a long single file, like a string of elephants entering a circus arena. The MLS lets planes head into what is, in effect, a huge electronic funnel whose gaping mouth is 80° wide and 20° high (the ILS glide path...
...British, whose Doppler system is built by Plessey Co., Ltd., insist that the U.S. scanning beam is clearly inferior. They also contend that computer simulations done for the FAA at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory were biased in favor of the American MLS. Some U.S. experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth...
There were 92 officially scheduled shows, up to ten a day for ten days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...