Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tiled floor in the huge basement of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Gleaming like a Cartier jewel, a scale model of a General Dynamics F-16 jet fighter slowly revolved on a glass-enclosed turntable; beneath its wings rested such accessories as Walleye and Sidewinder missiles, tubular pods of radar equipment and bomb clusters...
...communications medium since the Bell telephone. Used largely as a plaything after its introduction in the 1950s, it first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of radar traps. In the past year, the vogue has spread to a vast and vocal number of private-car owners, who have tied into a short-wave system* that today links an estimated 6 million radio sets. For most of its users, the CB system has become a new information...
Pentagon and State Department sources anticipate no shortage of volunteers. Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites. They are also looking forward to pay that could add up to $40,000 or more a year...
...over-the-horizon" radar enabling operators to detect targets that are normally beyond radar range...
...lightweight rapid-scanning radar that can "hear" men and vehicles moving as much as four miles away and closely estimate their number...