Word: blips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy molds, willing to deal equably with diversity abroad and genuinely committed to the cause of human rights. Having frequently demonstrated his skill with political symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip in the popularity polls, however, he left home anticipating no heavy returns from this trip or the one in March. Said a senior U.S. official of the communiqués that were being drafted for each stop: "They will be remembered for less time than it takes to write them...
...Jimmy Carter's press conference last week than even his dramatic B-l decision. No wonder. His foreign policy is in some trouble at home and abroad. Such troubles are easily exaggerated by Washington (including the capital press corps), a community that pays compulsive, excessive attention to every blip of seeming success or failure. But in the past few weeks the President has been handed setbacks by a Congress reluctant to endorse his planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and authorize U.S. participation in loans to Cuba, Indochina and several African nations. Said one senior State Department official...
...guys who drafted that Harvard-CIA contract are gonna know this--you know those magnetic strips on the back of your Bursars cards? Well, listen really closely to them sometime. (Not in a room where there are Russians or Rice Krispies--interferenceville, man...) Anyway, you year what I hear? Blip, Blip, Blip!!! A master computer is keeping tabs on us! Have you ever gotten off on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center? I thought not!! Y'see, that's where they keep the damn computer that watches us--Blip! Blip! Blip! It sees us when we're sleeping! It knows...
...constant danger is that controller and pilot will somehow misunderstand each other. This apparently happened on Dec. 1, 1974, when TWA Flight 514 was approaching Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C. Coming in too low, the plane crashed into a mountain while the helpless controller watched the blip disappear from his radarscope. Since that disaster, controllers, while giving the final clearance, read out specific altitude changes to pilots approaching all airports...
...experts will look at the dials and mechanisms to determine what range the pilot must have to lock on to a target. The squad will be probing the electronic-countermeasure capability of the plane, checking whether it has a radar-absorption paint or plate to give it a distorted blip on radar scanners...