Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arranged for a coordinated military-civilian air-traffic-control setup with the help of military's $2 billion radar network, within a few months established complete ground radar control on all major high-altitude routes...
Quesada has also been hotly accused of being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union...
...dead calm at ground level, but above 10,000 ft., 60-m.p.h. winds caused a quick dispersal of high-altitude radioactivity. French patrols had already fanned out through the region, rounding up some 300 nomad tribesmen. Before the shot, radar screens swept land and air, watching for any movement that might indicate endangered humans. Because of the direction of the winds at the time, the French said there was little chance of fallout blowing toward inhabited areas...
Five days later, sonar operators made the second hard contact, but an attack only sent the intruder to 420 ft., well beyond the 300-ft. range of the Argentine depth charges. On the eighth day, radar spotted a sub, or its snorkel, above the surface. The target dived to 540 ft., but the pursuers heard a sound like hammering for the next two days, possibly indicating damage being repaired...
Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...