Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, he was collecting air samples and trying to get an electronic reading on the heavy Soviet defenses on the island. As a result of the Sakhalin overflight, the U.S. is considering such precautionary steps as increasing the U2's navigational gear and limiting flights to good weather to avoid chances of error. But there are no plans to ground the U-2 altogether-its probing flights are considered vital to U.S. security...
Mostly at night, and mostly with their own hands, the Russians unloaded sensitive electronic gear and crates shaped as though they might contain missiles...
Four miles down the red clay road, Morfett discovered a second bivouac, "swarming with thousands of Russians. Some were dressed in physical-training gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...
...mile-range surveillance radar and electromagnetic tracking posts to monitor Cape Canaveral shots and to aid orbiting Russian cosmonauts who have heretofore had no land-based station in the Western Hemisphere. Already in Cuban waters are five Russian 750-ton fishing trawlers, loaded to the gunwales with electronic gear...
...latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent. Harriman has also tailored his autos to continental tastes in less visible ways, e.g., learning that Germans like slow-revving engines, he heightened the gear ratios on the cars that he sent to Germany. Result: though B.M.C. must buck steep tariff walls so long as Britain is not a member of the Common Market, its exports to the Continent are running twice as high as they were a year ago, now exceed its sales...