Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sabin, Minn., has suffered three heart attacks and two strokes. Although his parents are alive at 89 and 82, he has had severe cataracts removed, is sterile, and must take two dozen pills a day. His problems, he insists, stem from his two years as an Army radar repairman on Iwo Jima during World War II when he was so severely exposed to microwaves that his brown hair turned red. Says he: "I was cooked...
Krabbenhoft realizes he cannot reverse his own serious ailments, but he wants others to be spared. At a conference sponsored by the Radar Victims Network in San Francisco last week, he and his fellow "victims," including Organization President Joseph Towne, met with doctors and lawyers to plot strategy for a national campaign. They want the Government to take action against what they consider the growing danger from microwave radiation. The U.S., said Los Angeles Radiation Specialist Dr. John McLaughlin, is one "giant microwave oven...
Planes that have new computers and color radar...
...instrument panels are designed to help them keep constant watch on performance. They no longer will have to rely on a clutter of spinning indicators or round dials. Information will be displayed, simply and concisely, on digital readouts, vertical scales and bright, television-style screens. A much improved radar will display the weather ahead in living color (red for thunderstorms, yellow for light rain, green for smooth air). An indicator will give the distance and flying time to bad weather...
...avoid more serious shutdowns if the glacier retreats, the Coast Guard has been considering a number of alternatives. One proposal, to build a powerful radar station near Valdez to monitor icebergs, would require large amounts of money before geologists can confirm that the glacier is indeed retreating. Also, most icebergs calved by Columbia Glacier are "growlers" (20-ft.-wide slabs of ice that rise less than four feet above the water line) and somewhat larger "bergy bits" that are not easily picked up by radar. Another idea is to tow bergs out of the shipping lanes. But both solutions would...