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...electronics, it is the sole maker of radar for Air Force interceptor planes, the sole builder of fire-control devices for Navy Banshee fighters. It also developed controls for an air-to-air guided missile so accurate that tests of it were stopped because it was destroying too many drone planes...
From the Lake Erie shore east of Toledo rose a droning peep-pop of small arms. Occasionally, the peepers' chorus was lost in the bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through...
Though he eats her cooking daily, Herbert is convinced that his wife has been dead for 17 years, and pays her no notice except for her weekly resurrection at séances. His mousy womenfolk humor him and blame it all on a lorry smashup. The drone of an airplane sends him into whimpering hysterics. Even more trying to plain-as-rain Grace is her loony father's mirking assumption that mild Mr. Holme, the staid widower and pensioned policeman who lives down the street, is an "old bull" bent on seducing...
Some 150 miles from the Boxer, the guide plane and its robot (or "drone") reached Korea's east coast. The target was a rail-and-road bridge on the Reds' main line from Vladivostok to Wonsan. When the attacking party reached the target area, the AD hung back out of flak range, sent the robot on in. The Hellcat's camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow...
...room. The front rows were already full of women, a great phalanx of middle-aged housewives who outnumbered the men by at least two to one. Being led past them to a seat in the rear of the room gave one a feeling of smallness, such as a drone must experience now and then...