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With long-range navigational aids (LORAN), ships at sea can plot their locations to within one nautical mile. Under clear skies on a calm ocean, a good navigator can take an equally accurate fix with a sextant. But nothing does the job as well as the Navy's all-weather Transit satellite navigational system, which can pinpoint a ship's position to about 300 ft. Until now, Transit has been classified because it guides the Polaris missile submarine fleet, but last week the Government released it for use by any U.S. merchant ship...
...choice, the projects have ranged from analysis and measurements of stresses in hydrofoil struts to operations research in man-machine relationships, from the design of an analog-to-digital converter to the development of statistical predictors of academic success; from feasibility studies of nuclear power plants for isolated loran stations to the synthesis of a steady-state parametric amplifier...
Chief to the love-loran, and a joy every minute she is on stage, is Constancy (Melanie Adams), who yearns unrequited for Dr. Daly (Joel Martin), Vicar of Ploverleigh. Constancy and Dr. Daly very nearly dominate the entire evening and to no ill effect. Miss Adams has plenty of ham and an admirable voice, she can leer lasciviously and make a mock-tragic aria sound like decent Mozart. Joel Martin sang more clearly and yet with more spirit than most people speak...
...Long-Range Navigation) can give a navigator an accurate, medium-range fix. But despite the promise of its name, LORAN does not reach dependably to the middle of the Atlantic, and strong "atmospherics" (static) can put it out of action...
...shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...