Word: moorestown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moorestown...
...adding a low-noise amplifier to their radar, RCA engineers discovered that they could track CAT even better; they followed its path with a clear, rapidly wiggling line on their radarscopes. Last week RCA had two modified C-band sets at work-one in Moorestown, N.J., and another on the DAMP (for Downrange Anti-Missile Measurement Program) ship in the South Atlantic. Once they are certain they have cornered CAT, avoiding its dangerous attack will be a simple matter for the careful pilot...
...BMEWS was built for. Warning of possible missile attack flashed across ice and tundra to the North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs; a frantic flap spread over the continent. Airbases waited for red alerts, their bombers poised on the runways. Roused out of bed at home in Moorestown, Holmes listened carefully to a telephoned description of the frightening signals and realized what must have happened. Radar pulses from Thule had soared far beyond Russia and hit the rising moon 240,000 miles away. Reflected back to earth in 2.6 seconds, they showed up on the radar screens exactly...
...Columbus. He kept asking how he could live with himself if he turned it down. In the end, it was his desire to push back the boundaries that prevailed. He has a streak of romanticism, religion, patriotism. He is not the cold, calculating type." So Brainerd Holmes sold his Moorestown, N.J., home, moved his family (wife and two teen-age daughters, Dorothy, 17, Katherine, 13) to a modest house in Washington...