Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...method is straightforward enough, but interferometers attached to conventional telescopes are extremely difficult to use; they can measure only the nearest and biggest stars - red giants such as Betelgeuse, which has 290 times the diameter of the sun. To measure smaller or more distant stars, the beam-collecting mirrors must be much farther apart than is possible with a single optical telescope...
Obviously, the signal demanded an answer, and the thoughtful Cygnians labored mightily over their reply. They hoped that earthmen would understand it, since they were sending it back by laser beam. But they were wrong...
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...