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...face mask for added warmth. But nothing seemed to help much. On the second day the temperature dropped to 70° below zero. As the snowmobilers plowed ahead through Moose Creek and the village of North Pole, the freezing exhaust of their engines created a tunnel of ice fog. Visibility was reduced to less than...
Most airports are only equipped with a navigation and approach system called VOR-DME (for very high frequency, omnirange, distance-measuring equipment), which guides a plane into the traffic pattern. But it is the final letdown through fog or rain that produces the tensest moments for pilot and crew. Then more than VOR-DME is needed. The Air Force relies on a system called PAR (for precision-approach radar). Because it places decision making in the hands of the ground controller, it is not popular with airline captains. In the past 14 months, PAR systems have been abandoned...
Point of Honor. The company's research-and-development department never ceases. A Bangor Punta subsidiary, General Ordnance Equipment Corp., which has done very well with its highly profitable Mace, has another comer in a 25-lb. device that generates a billowing smoky haze called Pepper Fog. The $395 tubular generator can be slung and aimed from the shoulder, and it has cleared 400 rioting prisoners from a large building in 2½ minutes. The company, having sold what it had thought would be a full year's supply in four months, has lately increased production facilities fivefold...
...fog was building up over the ocean. It was not building up like a shack but like a Grand Hotel. Soon ... everything would be lost in flocks of vaporous bellboys...
...report makes it very evident that the well-known "fog of war" hung heavily over Chicago. The violent struggle in front of the Hilton Hotel, which was televised around the world, apparently resulted from lack of communications...