Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew of a target launcher parked out on the desert. A small, solid propellant rocket roars into the sky. When it reaches 40,000 feet or higher, a spring pushes its nose off, releasing a parachute whose silk is covered with a thin film of silver. The silver reflects radar waves like the skin of an enemy aircraft. As the parachute drifts down slowly, the missiles climbing up from below attack it intelligently and blow it to shreds...
...Norwegian island 165 miles inside the Arctic Circle, engineers are blasting an airfield out of rock. In Balikesir, where two years ago Turks welcomed their first U.S.-made jets by sacrificing a sheep, Turkish pilots stand ready to "scramble" whenever the radar indicates enemy aircraft. Both outposts, and with them an immense array of armies, navies and air fleets, are joined together in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history's greatest peacetime military alliance...
...Heron's purpose is to find out by experiment how the brain behaves when deprived of fresh and varying stimulation from the senses. The problem is a practical one. Men watching radar screens on which nothing changes for hours often fail to see a strange blip when one appears. Many auto drivers are "hypnotized" into crackups by long hours behind the wheel on monotonous highways...
...direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...
...first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...