Word: decoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, intercept and, through a precisely timed nuclear blast, destroy enemy missiles coming in at 17,000 miles an hour. "Traffic handling" refers to a system that prevents a flock of U.S. anti-missile missiles from blowing up each other as they climb to find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt sound and electronic impulses in the gear that is tracking the incoming missiles...
...started, without proper advance study, because military chiefs had an empire-building yen for them. They included a nuclear-powered aircraft, killed in 1961 after 15 years' work and the expenditure of a billion dollars; a jet-powered flying boat on which $450 million was spent; the Goose decoy missile, a pilotless aircraft to fool enemy radar, canceled after $80 million in costs because the contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that...
...Combined with Diefenbaker's dillydallying performance on domestic issues, the uproar was enough to bring down his shaky government. Now he saw a chance to vindicate himself and, on TV, proceeded to twist McNamara's words to his political advantage. "That means that we are just a decoy to draw fire," said Diefenbaker. To reporters, he was exultant. "Happy days are here," he chortled. "This has really put the skids under Pearson. This is the knockout blow." Gleefully he added: "It came at just the right time...
...sight of husky New York cops ' dressed up as women to decoy nighttime muggers gave Manhattan newspaper feature writers their biggest outing in transvestite humor since Charley's Aunt. But the program, said New York's finest, has paid off with "remarkable success" (see THE NATION). Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was the first to give credit where credit is due: he was merely expanding on an idea tried out in St. Louis that the commissioner read about in TIME just last week...
...City's army of muggers, rapists and robbers last week began to discover that the tottering drunk or the lonely girl might really be a masquerading policeman. Inspired by the success of St. Louis police with similar tactics (TIME, Aug. 24), Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy initiated Operation Decoy as a new means of fighting New York's soaring crime rate, which nightly leaves bleeding victims sprawled on the sidewalk...