Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missiles and flak along the North Vietnamese border; the fourth was destroyed by a missile-armed MIG-21-the first kill by a North Vietnamese jet since January 1970, when a MIG shot a U.S. helicopter down over Laos. Striking back, U.S. planes attacked five North Vietnamese missile and radar sites, one of them only 73 miles from Hanoi...
...massive bombing, just constant harassment ? though there have been several hundred civilian casualties. Thus when the planes roar overhead, life completely halts in the capital and people scurry into trenches or stand in doorways with woolen shawls over their heads, ostrichlike. Be cause of the Kashmir mountains, the radar in the area does not pick up Indian planes until they are about 15 miles away...
...intelligence. By 1960, when scientists led by Frank Drake in an operation called Project Ozma used the radio telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., in an attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization. The source was later identified as a distant, starlike quasar. When Cambridge Astronomer Anthony Hewish and his assistant Jocelyn Bell...
...published these so-called facts. I could have set them straight. "Several weeks ago we spent more than half an hour with Mr. Burke talking about these very facts. At that time (before we were in the media) he spoke candidly of Aerospace's role in developing foliage penetration radar's for the Army, and also discussed Aerospace's attempt at conversion--making burglar alarms. Yesterday we received an informal--but reliable--confirmation in talking with Aerospace workers...
Short Bullet. Scouts are impressed by the way Wichard runs the Pioneers' pro-style offense. Calling all of his plays at the line of scrimmage, he has developed the kind of radar-like sense for reading defenses that the pro teams prize. A classic drop-back passer, he is as accurate with the short bullet as he is with the long bomb. "If I need improvement in anything," says Wichard, "it would be in my ball handling. I can't spot anything I have to work on in my passing...