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...heavily sandbagged bunker, a regimental commander in a crack U.S. division leaned against a supporting beam, took off his helmet, ran his fingers through matted grey-blond hair. "If we can get through the enemy," he said, "it will be a long, slow job and it will cost us plenty. We'll have to burn and blast him out with flamethrowers and demolition grenades. And we'll need a lot more here than we've got now. In this war it's too late for any lightning offensives...
...tubes and costs about ?50,000. The poor man's radar has no spinning surveillance antenna as does conventional Ground Control Approach Radar and so does not give a continuous radar-eye view of the air around the airport. Instead it shoots out only a single narrow beam of radar pulses. Guided by a direction finder, the operator swings the beam with a pair of "handle bars" until it picks up an approaching plane. A "blip" on the radar's scope tells him that he has found it. Then, keeping the plane in the scope, he "talks...
Whenever the subject starts to babble about the terrible conditions on Venus or the moon, the scientologist knows that he is on the beam. More mundanely, if the subject gets up to date enough to remember his own conception of the first cellular subdivision of his body matter, it may, Hubbard says, cure his cancer...
Space travel will probably have to wait, Rosen believes, until the scientists have made some basic discovery equal in novelty to Faraday's discovery of electromagnetism. A beam of high-speed particles pushed at close to the speed of light by nuclear energy might do the trick. No one yet has the foggiest idea about...
...Painter Sir Gerald Kelly. They spent their honeymoon in Cairo, where they drove through the streets dressed in silks, diamonds and cloth of gold, and in Ceylon, where, for a while, Rose thought she was a flying bat and was found by her admiring husband hanging from a beam, naked, upside down and unhurt...