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SATELLITE CONTRACTS worth $283 million were awarded to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the Air Force. Major $160 million contract is for Samos, the Air Force's global surveillance satellite system. And $52 million will go for Midas, the infra-red detection system to report trails of heat from enemy missiles in flight, and $71 million for Discoverer, the space-probe program...
Water for Life. The data the scientists brought back to Dr. Strong proved worth the trouble. Inscribed on a thin strip of wax paper were spectroscopic readings of the light from Venus. They showed that when the sun's light passes through Venus' atmosphere, certain infra-red lines are partially absorbed, providing dramatic evidence that Venus' cloudy atmosphere contains water vapor...
...just beginning." Better methods of packaging, freezing, mixing and cooking are on the way to tempt the housewife. She may soon be able to duplicate the cooking feats of big hotels and restaurants; many of them now move individual meals from freezer to plate in two minutes via an infra-red range. A new method of freeze drying may replace many of the present frozen foods with dehydrated foods that will not have to be kept in a freezer...
...Reason. Navy Chief Arleigh Burke grabbed a radio telephone to Admiral Withington in Tokyo and learned the embarrassing truth: the Mercator lacked no parts. Its nose and top guns had been dismantled to make room for top-secret radar and infra-red gear, used in mapping and aerial photography. And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon...
...meantime, 67 volunteers and four officers will continue the war games under infra-red searchlights. Itinerant bootblacks, scullions, and vagrants have been hired as practice drone targets...