Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week swooshed a hot U.S. challenger in the East-West missiles race-the Snark,* a huge (74 ft. long, 7 tons), turbojet-propelled, surface-to-surface guided missile, i.e., a winged pilotless bomber, with speeds up to 600 m.p.h. and intercontinental range (at least 5,000 miles). Radar-checked and ground-controlled, it whizzed southeast down the Caribbean along the 5,000-mile U.S. test range that extends -by agreement with Britain-from Florida to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Its flight plan: to proceed to a "scheduled turn-around point" on the range, come about and return...
...dream of longer-range Army-built missiles that could (as the Army Information Digest recently said) attack "distant troop concentrations, marshaling areas and communication centers" and destroy "enemy missile sites, atomic stockpiles and airfields." The Army was assigned responsibility for point, i.e., local defense and the franchise on such radar-directed, land-to-air missiles as Nike, with a range of not more than 100 miles...
...radar has failed to find them...
...Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio onlookers saw Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Ferenc Munnich snatch the script from the Premier's hand and denounce him as "an idiot" who was "misleading the nation...
...expects to have its new equipment in operation by next summer. Within three years, CAA figures, the nation will have a network of more than 70 civil and military radar installations, enough to handle four times the current volume of U.S. air traffic...