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...much truth was there to Castro's story? There seems to be some. A 174-ft. vessel called the Rex, a converted U.S. Navy patrol boat flying a Nicaraguan flag and carrying radar, searchlights and a heavy crane, has indeed been tied up at West Palm Beach. Port fees are paid by the SeaKey Shipping Co., known only by a Miami post office box. The Rex's voyages are shrouded in mystery. It engages in electronic and oceanographic research, says a Miami oil executive who claims to own the ship. On her last sailing...
...Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency and cost more than $8,000,000. It was originally conceived by Radio Engineer William E. Gordon of Cornell as a means of studying the electrified layers in the earth's upper atmosphere by shooting enormously powerful radar pulses through them and listening for faint echoes. Since those electrified layers control long-distance radio communication and are involved in attempts to devise some defense against ballistic missiles, almost any information gathered by the scope promises to be worth the price...
Used as a radar, it has 40,000 times the power of the Air Force radar at Millstone Hill, Mass., which bounced electronic pulses off Venus. The mighty pulses from Arecibo will study Venus and the other planets more intimately. Turned on the moon, they will penetrate many feet below the surface. Their reflections received on earth will help predict what sort of rock or dust the first human explorers will find...
...food immediately, microwave users now quick-freeze the dishes after cooking them on conventional stoves and store them like TV dinners until the time comes to serve. The dishes are then popped into a microwave oven, which heats them in just a minute or two as high-frequency radar microwaves are absorbed by the food. Institutional users find the process ideal for low-cost assembly-line feeding...
...sell frozen meals designed for microwave ovens, and a Connecticut company, called Hager Inc., is turning out frozen "gourmet" meals for smaller restaurants that need invest in only one microwave oven (average cost: $1,800). Though most airlines bring hot food aboard in insulated cabinets, Pan American has put radar ovens in its planes, heats up frozen foods in flight...