Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...focal lengths that turn their lenses into virtual telescopes. Some of them swing from side to side, reaching both horizons. But though the pictures show surprising clarity, their scale is still too small to illuminate fine details of objects on the ground. Clouds are another frustrating disadvantage; over humid Cuba they often spoil the view. High-Utitude photography serves best for surveying large areas that cannot be reached by fast, low-altitude dashes from friendly territory...
...months trie Cuban skies have belonged to U S photo planes-soaring, diving, circling appearing and disappearing on swift, unexpected tangents. Diplomats may still argue about on-site inspection of Cuban missile bases, but the question is almost academic. Under the prying eyes of U S aerial cameras. Cuba lies as exposed as a nude in a swimming pool...
While airborne cameras are crisscrossing Cuba, more dignified electronic snooper planes circle the island. Some, with their bulky radar antennas, look like a fish that has just swallowed a turtle but their sensitive radar pictures sometimes reveal things that photographs miss. Other snoopers are loaded with electronic black boxes" that can record every electronic signal emanating from Cuba-from mambo music to messages for Moscow. No ground-based radar can search the sky without being recorded. Even hand-carried walkie-talkies can be heard by the bug ears...
Taking pictures of Cuba today is a relatively leisurely business, butunder actual war conditions, information about the enemy is needed as quickly as possible. To meet this need, some low-flying photo planes develop their own films using a processing system that works wholly automatically, keeps itself at the right temperature, and is not bothered by the plane's wildest gyrations. When the plane lands, the film can be examined at once for news of the enemy's doings...
...Cuba & Comeback. The first sizable sign of a business upswing came in October, when Detroit rolled out a high-styled line of '63 cars that had more built-in maintenance than the '625?at the same price. The new models were gobbled up by a public that was earning record income and had fattened its savings accounts with money from stocks sold during the crash. Auto production in the fourth quarter climbed to 2,000,000 cars, higher even than the great record year...