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...Blip & Buzzer. Every day 25,000 aircraft, on the average, are flying over the U.S., and all are suspect until proved friendly. Every plane flying near target areas or over 4,000 ft. must file a flight plan; any deviation of ten miles or five minutes attracts jet interceptors...
...four times a day. Their sleek interceptors are always armed, fueled and ready to roll, with the lead pair parked on the take-off strip and two more right behind. As at every air-defense base, restless jet pilots are always waiting in the ready shack for the buzzer-the loud rasping signal to scramble. "It sounds pretty awful," said one Kirtland pilot to a newsman sharing his vigil, "after you've been here six months...
...When the buzzer sounded, two pilots, bulky in their flying gear (pressure suit, parachute, oxygen mask, survival kit, maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick...
Alarmed by a buzzer or a flash of light, possums played possum for an average of two minutes, six seconds. Then Dr. Lowenbach and Dr. John Andrews Ritchie gave the marsupials standard electric-shock treatments. After ten doses the possums, when alarmed, froze for an average of only eight seconds. Some did not freeze at all, and actually "came out fighting" when a light flashed on them...
Standing on a beflagged platform in a newly mown oat field near Massena, N.Y. one afternoon last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey pressed a buzzer. Some two miles away in the St. Lawrence River, buried dynamite charges exploded, hurling geysers of water into the air. Fireworks burst overhead, releasing a rain of miniature U.S. flags and Canadian ensigns. At long last construction was started on the huge electric-power project undertaken jointly by the State of New York and the Canadian Province of Ontario. Said Dewey: "The crapehangers may now soak their heads. This...