Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab planes were trapped in their parking area?strung out wingtip to wingtip?suggested that Israel must have struck the first blow. The stunned Arabs, of course, said that it had, and Moscow angrily concurred. But, as Israel first told it, the Jewish jets scrambled only after early-warning radar picked up several waves of Arab planes headed straight for Israel. At the same time, a massive Egyptian armored column was reported to be rolling out of its base at El Arish and steering toward the Israeli border...
...Hoeydonck's panoramas are meant to show the effluvia that will float past the porthole or radar screens of future capsules en route to distant galaxies. In Radar #V, he covers the view with a layer of colored Plexiglas partly because it creates a bloodcurdlingly realistic mood of objects adrift on an uncharted sea. Van Hoeydonck maintains that he is not trying to frighten people. "All I'm trying to do," he says, "is be a kind of reporter of the future...
...home against discrimination; together we can win in both places." The Negro on duty becomes a truly invisible man: "In civilian life, somebody might look at you and say 'You're a Negro,'" remarks Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Friedel C. Greene, 25, a carrier-based radar tracker from Memphis. "Over here they just look to see if you do your job." That hopeful sentiment reflects a concern with full citizenship that goes far beyond the desperate banalities of Negro dissidents...
...installation of many Spartan batteries-backed up by smaller and faster Sprint missiles for short-range interception of ICBMs that penetrate the X-ray curtain-would not provide sufficient protection against a determined and massive attack by the Soviet Union. Using shielding, decoys, multiple and maneuverable warheads and radar-jamming chaff or nuclear explosions, the Russians could confuse and overwhelm U.S. defenses-just as the U.S. could overcome theirs...
...Lower East Side and went on from a Ph.D. at Columbia University to become one of the nation's pioneer nuclear researchers, ended 37 years of teaching at Columbia. A 1944 Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating the famed Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rabi also helped make Columbia's physics department one of the best in the entire world...