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When you say, "Government-Trust us-don't regulate us. We'll hold the line-Voluntarily," then you are really off the beam...
Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...
...only to watch for news stories of more than local interest, but to keep us constantly filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying, thinking. And you may be sure that these correspondents never fail to jack us up when we get off the beam; they are, in fact, our quickest, toughest critics...
...Burton of the U.S. Naval Observatory (who should have known better) seemed to hope that Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
...takes five trained operators to run G.C.A. Two work on the rotating search beam-one as general policeman for all air traffic in the area and one to guide individual planes into precision range. The three precision system operators follow the plane's altitude, check its distance from the runway and keep up constant radio contact with the pilot...