Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian zone, just over the way, as Alt-Glienicke. Self-important ducks and chickens strut like commissars in Alt-Glienicke's cobbled streets. Berlin's only working windmill turns lazily in the breeze near by, and close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings of barbed wire guard the lonely radar post, and behind them a detachment of uniformed Signal Corps men live a life as secret and isolated as monks...
...Cellar. For many a month, the supersecrecy surrounding the construction and operation of Rudow's radar station had fed the gossip of bored Americans in the occupied city. There were those who remembered a civilian engineer hired to supervise the job; he had quit in disgust because the blueprints seemed so crazy. "Why build a cellar big enough to drive through with a dump truck?" he asked, and was told to mind his own business. Others recalled seeing friends whom they knew to be engineers suddenly appearing at the station wearing the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
This subject will be brought closer to home soon when a radar network is constructed in Southern Massachusetts to study meteors. A million-watt transmitter will bounce radar waves off meteors onto a string of six receivers spaced seven miles apart. The program is to be completed in conjunction with M.I.T.'s project Lincoln...
...Force operations chief in 1947, went to Germany in 1950 as commander in chief of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, was named Al Gruenther's deputy air commander in July, 1953. At NATO Norstad shaped atomic strategy, built up the air base network-communications system-and radar-warning service...
Dream into Reality? All of this was the groundwork for a radical restyling of the Packard line in 1957 to look like Packard's dream car, the Predictor, with sliding roof panels, disappearing headlights and radar brakes. With its advanced new car, Packard hoped to be able to compete with the Big Three and get solidly into the black. But when the time came to order retooling for the new model, said one Packard official sadly, "our money ran out." Now Packard plans only a face lifting of its models for next year. But if the merger goes through...