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...believe that our anonymous Navy surgeon framed concisely the words so very many of our less eloquent servicemen and citizenry would like to have attempted. Thanks to the on-the-beam logician and to TIME for bringing his masterpiece to light...
...radio beam follows the earth's curvature, instead of sailing into space, because it bounces along a reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument...
...wise Anne O'Hare McCormick, foreign affairs expert, who has a special talent for the examination of Anglo-American relations, came in on the same beam...
...pilot banked wildly to avoid it, but the radio-beam mechanism had evidently been knocked out of kilter, for the bomb swung gracefully around and again chased the aircraft. When last seen, the bomber was hightailing over the horizon, its rocket bomb hot after...
...Industry Speaks. Though his statistics were suspect, Jimmy Moffett was right on the U.S. oil industry's beam. Next day 55 members of the Petroleum Industry War Council released a resolution against 1) the Arabian pipeline. 2) the continued existence of Harold Ickes' Petroleum Reserves Corp. They represented every U.S. oil company except Gulf, Texas and Standard of California, who are the only three beneficiaries of the Middle Eastern pipeline...