Word: radar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground weapons system called the Bold Orion. Slated for the Strategic Air Command, the revolutionary nuclear-tipped missile will prolong the useful life of SAC bombers by enabling them to fire at targets 1,000 miles distant-from points outside an enemy's radar screen. Last week's shot, fired by a supersonic B58 Hustler (whose sonic boom startled beach residents) was a one-stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier, was launched from a B-47 at a target 700 miles away. The Bold Orion...
...earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T. to teach electrical engineering, soon switched to physics. His first big administrative task after World War II: organizing the successor to the institute's wartime Radiation Laboratory, which had been chiefly responsible for the development of radar, under a new title-the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He became known for a quiet manner, for almost painfully earnest efforts to resolve clashing points of view, and for a broad understanding of how to bridge the shifting boundaries between scientific disciplines...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). A beep about radar, by a couple of university research men, that sounds out everything from foggy airplane landings to stellar explosions to speeding tickets...
...many ways. Long ignored by indifferent Congresses, airway control and airport modernization are lagging badly. Only 14 U.S. airports are now ready to handle jets. Complete air control is still a paper project-though enough may be done by January to keep American's transcontinental jets under radar surveillance across the U.S. But most of the changes are inevitable, simply because the jet age demands them...
...Perfect Furlough, in which part of the chatter has to do with sending "do-it-yourself" kits to the sex-starved personnel of an Army radar station in Alaska. (Article V, Section 2: "Obscenity in words . . . even when likely to be understood by only part of the audience, is forbidden...