Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really hold maul-and-maim contests in which the object is to kill one's opponent...
...Sidewinder is a small (9.5 ft. long, 5 in. diameter) rocket driven by a solid propellant. In its nose is a sensing device containing lead sulphide, which is sensitive to infrared radiation from hot objects like the tailpipes of jet engines. When the sensing device "sees" something hot in its 20° field of vision, it turns toward it. The Sidewinder turns too, homing accurately on the hot object. The system is so simple that pilots can use it in combat with scarcely any special training...
When the pilot starts his attack on an enemy airplane, the Sidewinder tells him by a buzzing signal when it "sees" an object that it can home on. When the target is close enough, the pilot presses a button. The Sidewinder fires and is thereafter on its own, pursuing the target relentlessly. Its range is up to 20,000 ft., depending on many factors, including direction, altitude and speed of both airplanes. Frequently a Sidewinder gets in a jet's wake and flies right up the tailpipe before it explodes...
...airplane under attack can foil the Sidewinder under some conditions by firing a flare or other hot object to deceive it and lure it away. This is not easy, and not always effective. The flare must be nearly as hot as the jet exhaust, and it must be released at exactly the proper moment...
...contrast, there was a disturbing report about danger from an object hitherto generally considered harmless: the wristwatch. Drs. Grafton D. Chase and Arthur Osol of Philadelphia's College of Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...