Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army announced officially that it was barring Communists and other "subversive or disaffected" personnel from all "sensitive assignments" such as radar, atomic energy, decoding...
...first, the U.S. flag or the U.S. dollar, to old banana hands such winds would have signaled hurricane warnings. For politically minded United Fruit was deeply involved in Dictators Ubico's and Carías' rise to power. But wily Sam Zemurray, United's big boss, radar-keen in detecting a gale, had fore-handedly trimmed sail. Now a United Fruit executive in Central America can hardly take a drink in the presence of a Honduran political exile without cursing the Carías tyranny. Says old (69) Sam Zemurray: "These are democratic times...
...Balkans-except Greece-are already in the widening Soviet orbit. The Russians all but have their hands on Iran's oil, and certainly have their eyes on the pipeline in the Levant states, which last week asked UNO for withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...
...Nininger was a comparatively modest rocketeer. Those champion optimists of near-science, the astronauts, were also raring to go. They had been vastly encouraged by radar contact with the moon and by the military's super-stratosphere rockets...
Married. Gloria Chavez, 20, younger daughter of New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, and a George Washington University undergraduate (fellow student Margaret Truman was a bridesmaid); and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Jorge Enrique Tristani, 26, U.S.-trained radar expert from Puerto Rico; in Washington...