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...example, have measured the minute frequency change that takes place in gamma rays projected vertically for as little as 70 ft. in the earth's gravitational field. Their results upheld the gravity-caused shifts in frequency predicted by Einstein. An M.I.T. scientist plans to bounce high-frequency radar pulses off Venus as it begins to swing behind the sun. If Einstein's theory holds, the radar waves will be slowed down slightly as they pass through the strongest part of the solar gravitational field-enough to cause a 40-mile error in radar measurement of the distance...
...automaker's $11,000 gift is a scaled-down model of that piece of incredibilia James Bond drove in Goldfinger. Tooling around the playgrounds, Andrew can be in constant contact by two-way radio with headquarters at either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace. There is also a radar warning system with a three-mile radius, a protective bulletproof shield, and the punch of a button can send up a giant smoke screen or fire streams of water from the two rear reflectors. So cool it, nanny...
Harvard golfers misclubbed themselves frequently on the unfamiliar Navy course, which boasts such obstacles as radar screens and radio antennae. The team members had other problems too. They were tired from playing 36 holes a day on the spring trip and most of them hadn't had time to get their games in shape during the New England winter...
That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA technicians followed the approaching capsule by radar and urgently queried Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott for additional information. In the Mission Control Center near Houston, flight controllers huddled over their consoles and studied telemetered data in a desperate effort to track down the trouble. Millions of Americans listened in startled silence as NASA's Paul Haney, his usually calm voice urgent and shaken, announced over television and radio that...
Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...