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...contributions of Ryle and Hewish, the first radio astronomers to win the Nobel Prize, are equally significant. Unlike astronomers who view the visible light from celestial objects through optical telescopes, they observe the invisible, longer wave lengths of energy given off by stars, galaxies and other heavenly bodies. To detect these so-called radio frequencies, they use radio telescopes-giant antennas that focus the incoming waves much as optical telescopes focus light waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Plastics to Pulsars | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...penetrate secret meetings when the subject is of compelling public interest. The subject was certainly that in this instance, and it was sure to make the reporters' ears grow long. The police session was called to discuss the electronic bugging of squad cars by police higher-ups to detect possible police misbehavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Long Ears in Louisville | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

Heart disease may be more common, arthritis more crippling, but no disease is more feared by women than breast cancer. Until fairly recently, women so dreaded it that they avoided discussing it, even among themselves; some, fearing the mutilative surgery required to control cancer, avoided examinations that could detect the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coping with Cancer | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...know de Mau Mau terrorist group is still in the area," he said yesterday," and if we detect them carrying any firearms into any buildings, our men will be right back on those roofs...

Author: By Richard W. Edelman, | Title: Busing Sparks New Protests | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

...experts and all share one viewpoint in common. That is, they're absolutely essential to the smooth functioning of the South Vietnamese effort. Without them the Republic of South Vietnam wouldn't be able to survive for long. One man claims his work on a surveillance device used to detect enemy radar operation is vital; without it the Vietnamese Air Force would be grounded. One thing becomes clear in these interviews: Even taking into consideration the technicians' collective sense of inflated self-importance, one begins to understand that the South Vietnamese could not become self-sufficient within the next...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: The Silent War | 10/3/1974 | See Source »

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