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...reason than the prestige of maintaining a watch east of the Rhine. What concessions De Gaulle might make in exchange were still an open question. But it was clear that he was preparing a hard bargain to ensure France's continued access to NATO's early-warning radar system. His bargaining point: a threat to close French air space to NATO flights...
Standing before M.I.T. Grad I. M. Pei's radar-domed earth science building, Calder's sculpture has both primitive power and modern grace. Its presence is courtesy of Eugene McDermott, a director of Texas Instruments Inc., who was a college classmate of Calder. But the selection came only after a number of sculptors-including David Smith, Richard Lippold and Jean Arp -were considered. Scholars at M.I.T. tested the Calder design in a wind tunnel, then they buried beneath it a time capsule that included a Betty Crocker cookbook, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, 1964 coins, M.I.T. memorabilia...
...took place just north of Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...
Armed with heat-seeking Sidewinder missiles and Sparrow radar-guided missiles, the U.S. flight leader dove out of the sun but overshot on his first pass. Three MIGs cut between the Phantoms, separating them into pairs, and went after the two U.S. lead planes. The second brace of F-4Cs, sweeping into the classic 6 o'clock target position that the Sidewinders require for homing, closed in, dropped one MIG with a missile right up the tailpipe. When a fourth MIG tried to pull in behind, the successful Phantom's wingman pounced, followed through in a diving roll...
...avoid the fatal weaknesses of earlier dirigibles, Morse's airship would be constructed of high-strength alloys of titanium and aluminum, the outer covering of durable nylon fabric. Radar and improved meteorological forecasting would enable the ship to avoid severe storms. The use of nonflammable helium for buoyancy and nuclear instead of chemical fuel for propulsion would virtually eliminate the danger of fire and explosion...