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GATHERING pictures and background material on North America's radar defense system required even more travel. Photographer Lawrence Lowry was sent first to Alaska and the western end of the DEW line, then to Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland. With his Arctic pictures in hand just before ice, fogs and darkness of the northern winter set in, he went on to installations in southern Canada, the U.S. and (by planes, blimp, helicopters and ships) to radar picket lines...
Meanwhile, to gather material for the text, Montreal Correspondent Byron Riggan made the first visit of any reporter to the Mid-Canada line. Other TIME Correspondents visited DEW line sites in Alaska, interceptor bases, Nike batteries and lonely aircraft control and warning stations from Cape Cod to Southern California, and interviewed NORAD's commanders at Colorado Springs. See SCIENCE, NORAD: Defense of a Continent...
...system that guards the North American continent today and is a hope for protection in the future includes: ¶ The 9,000-mile fence of the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line and its extensions, composed of air, sea and ground radar elements, circling the far approaches of the continent. ¶ A second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground...
...affectionate welcome, some of the press ranged from gooey valentines to hearty backslaps that gave the Cornwallis ritual at least the virtue of dignity. The Louisville Courier-Journal gushed that Elizabeth looked like an English rose "with a little of the morning dew still on the petals." Perhaps the deepest curtsy came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose greeting used "Her Majesty" seven times and "the Queen" only twice−a ratio of respect unmatched by the London Times itself. Long Island's Newsday burbled: WE LOVE THE QUEEN...
From the bullfrog severity of Robert Feke's The Reverend Thomas Hiscox, painted in 1745, to Loren Maclver's dew-gentle The Street, done last year, the Wildenstein exhibition is a succession of triumphs. No fewer than 28 major museums in 16 states contributed to the exhibition, and of its 54 canvases more than half are outright masterpieces. Seen in a body, they bring home with tremendous impact the vast and varied achievements of American painting. Said Harris K. Prior, director of the American Federation of Arts, in a foreword to the Wildenstein show: "Americans are finally accepting...