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Like most other entries, the winning cars had been fitted out with ultrabright driving lights, auxiliary fuel tanks, Scheel seats, heavy-duty shock absorbers, wide tires, Snooper units designed to pick up police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey Bears") from friendly truckers ahead. "The cops are really starting to get tricky," said Wes Dawn, 31, a professional racing driver from Los Angeles, who wheeled his Mercedes 4505L into the Portofino lot five minutes after the winner. "In Ohio the police all have C.B. radios in their cars-when...
...became moths. In addition to Maine's native budworms, hordes more were swept southeast on prevailing winds from Canada, where 75 million acres are also infested. "Clouds" of the insects-one measured 64 miles long by 16 miles wide-were tracked by the U.S. Weather Service's radar operators. When the moths landed, they clogged factory ventilators and auto radiators; their crushed bodies coated highways with a slippery, accident-causing goo; in some places, people shoveled the bugs off their porches like snow. But most of the moths ended up in the vast forests, where they quietly laid...
...this would be a test of who could get the fastest from point A to point B with only his wits and his car to get him there. The race would confer the status of outlaw upon all contestants, sure, but these were men who saw the obstacles of radar-equipped police much like Hillary saw the Himalayas in winter. They are ready to accept the consequences of their actions, and they believe they have made a rational choice...
...building a widespread anti-missile defense system intended to intercept and destroy Soviet ICBMS before they struck American cities. A study of the guidance system and flight characteristics of the Soviet warhead would have enabled U.S. scientists to program more effectively the computers directing the U.S.'s targeting radar...
...scene is a formation of 36 enormous B-52 intercontinental bombers, tied to the ground with wire as if to prevent them from flying off on their own. They dwarf a swarm of shining Navy combat jets parked five abreast, and beyond them, a row of Grumman Tracers with radar mounted like toadstools on top. Elsewhere are scores of F-4 Phantom IIs, looking like hooded hawks, their cockpit windows sprayed with a protective plastic, and squadrons of F-102 Delta Dagger fighter-interceptors...