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...With exquisite subtlety she then explores a dark world (The Lottery, Hangsaman, The Haunting of Hill House} in which the usual brooding old houses, fetishes, poisons, poltergeists and psychotic females take on new dimensions of chill and dementia under her black-magical writing skill and infra-red feminine sensibility...
Cuban drivers have been trained to handle 75 Korea-vintage 35-ton T-34 tanks, 25 old 51-ton Joseph Stalin 11s and 100 new 40-ton T-54s, the last equipped with night-fighting infra-red sights and mounted with 100-mm. guns...
When Mariner comes close to Venus, a radiometer will scan the planet's surface to detect the microwave emissions that would indicate the presence of water in the atmosphere and the temperature at the planet's surface. In a companion experiment, an infra-red radiometer will also scan Venus to get readings on temperature and atmospheric conditions...
...give an immediate warning of enemy missile firings, the Air Force is banking on Midas satellites, which will detect the launch by sensing the infra-red glow given off by the booster exhausts. To date, however, the Air Force has still not been able to develop reliable infra-red sensors...
...examine suspicious foreign satellites, the Air Force is cranking up the Satellite Inspector program (dubbed "Saint"). When perfected, Saint's satellites will be able to rendezvous within 50 ft. or so of a strange satellite, size it up by TV and infra-red and radiation detectors. Says one official: "It's a very orderly program, but there's some question whether that's the proper throttle setting...