Word: radar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inspection-thus indulging the old belief that saliva is an offering of the spirit to the gods. Some auto racers don't like peanuts or women in their pits. In keeping with the belief that new machines cause sterility, U.S. servicemen blithely took sexual advantage of British girl radar operators in World War II. A similar male myth has it that airline hostesses are incapable of conception because their cross-country flights confuse their menstrual cycles...
...cheering him, the honeymoon is on. Then he reaches the burnt-toast stage in the romance as he has to make decisions and people become disaffected. Yet he can't run a university out of his hip pocket any more. He has to have a kind of radar, always sending out signals to see what bounces back...
...clue, some comments will be angry. Private flyers, in particular, are incensed by the fact that the FAA intends to bar planes from the Golden Triangle pattern in bad weather unless they have a second pilot, can maintain an airspeed of 172 m.p.h. and carry electronic equipment to acknowledge radar signals of FAA controllers...
...before there had been a steady stream of Soviet aircraft flying to East German landing strips near the Czechoslovak border. Scanning radar screens, NATO intelligence officers were worried. Were the planes participating in the menacing war games that Warsaw Pact armies had been playing for more than two months? When the planes took off, heading away from Czechoslovakia-for the time being-the watchers relaxed...
...also on transmissions from the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 5 which flew past Venus less than two days after the Russian landing. According to JPL, the Russian capsule stopped sending signals when it was 3,774 miles from the center of Venus. But recent measurements by four powerful U.S. radar installations have established that the planet's radius is only 3,759 miles. That means that at the instant Venus 4 stopped transmitting, it must have been 15 miles above the planet's surface. The capsule, Kliore and Cain speculate, may have landed on a Venusian mountain three times...