Word: beams
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...ways of teaching science, math, reading and foreign languages will reach more youngsters than ever. From noon seminars to Saturday morning classes, more time will be spent at studies. TV teaching will reach nearly half the classrooms in California. In six Midwest states, two DC-6 airplanes will beam taped lessons to earthbound schools under the Ford Foundation-financed Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, which by June may reach 2,000,000 students...
...Radar was also quick to discover the Russian tests. The radiation from a nuclear explosion causes changes in the ionosphere, the electrically charged layers of the upper atmosphere. The searching beam of a long-distance radar is reflected by this disturbance, making the aftermath of the explosion visible to receiving apparatus at the radar station...
...guesses later, too much despair). He returns to his hotel room, where his wife has been gabbling on the phone to her mother, and shoots himself through the head. Reasons for the cryptic suicide were suggested in a superb story written seven years later, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, in which Seymour's wedding day is recalled; it shows a sensitive, gentle, somewhat weak man about to tie himself to a mass of hair nets, deodorant bottles and parroted psychiatric untruths...
...Bydgoszcz. At night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories. But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol. In 1937, after Jerry spent a few unproductive weeks at New York University, the two Salingers set out for Vienna. "I was supposed to apprentice myself to the Polish ham business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz...
Russia's most useful eavesdropping weapon is a tiny, kopeck-sized reflector. It was such a reflector, installed inside a plaque of the U.S. Great Seal in the Moscow embassy, that U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge displayed to the Security Council last year. When an infra-red beam is aimed at the reflector from outdoors, it acts as a microphone. Alternatively, but less reliably, the infra-red beam can be trained on any imperceptibly oscillating object, such as a metal lampshade or empty highball glass, that can act as a crude reflector for conversation...