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Using the present Instrument Landing System (ILS), the pilot of a jetliner approaching a fog-shrouded airport hears the sound pattern of a "localizer" radio beam when he is approximately eight miles from the end of the runway. He follows the beam, and soon a radio beacon warns him by means of a sound signal in his earphones and a purple light flashing on his instrument panel that he is five miles from touchdown. A few seconds later, he picks up the "glide slope" beam, which controls a pair of pointers on the plane's instrument panel. By flying...
Guiding Cables. Below 200 ft. the glide slope beam of conventional ILS is not dependable because of ground interference and reflections from nearby buildings. In Britain, where fog is frequent and nasty, magnetic cables have been laid leading to the runways. Instruments enable a pilot to keep between the cables and glide down safely, even below 200 ft. But magnetic cables are not considered the final answer, even in Britain...
...last week announced plans to build a 50-kw. Voice of America radio transmitter in South Viet Nam near the 17th Parallel to beam some propaganda of its own into the miserable North. Harassing raids into North Viet Nam by South Vietnamese Rangers, which have been quietly going on for more than a year, are being slightly stepped up; Hanoi itself has announced 14 trials of "spy commandos" since last June, denouncing the "plot of the U.S. imperialists to intensify sabotage against our North." The sabotage, such as it is, is of course not seriously harming the Northern regime...
...LOWER DEPTHS. In a crude beam-and-burlap basement, a group of humanity's dregs inhabit a no-exit hell of thoughtlessness, meanness and cruelty for each other, until a stranger for a while tries to set their lives in motion again and soothes them with the balm of understanding...
Serious Soviet scientists are hardly likely to endorse the laser-beam-from-Cygni theory, but they are not likely to denounce it either. If they took the trouble to knock down every wild theory that poses as science in the Soviet press, they would have little time for research...