Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radar-directed approach was perfect until he was only a few hundred yards short of the runway. Then the control-tower radar scanner saw in horror that the huge DC-8 suddenly had sunk twenty feet below the correct glide path. "Level off," commanded the tower operator. Seconds later, the plane dropped off the radar screen. Too low, the plane's wheels apparently snagged on the breakwater at the edge of the runway, sending the DC-8 cartwheeling down the field...
Karen Levine, the daughter of a New York radar engineer, goes to sleep at night with her transistor radio pulsating reassuringly beneath her pillow. Her dream is always the same: she becomes a dancer on TV's Hullabaloo and gaily frugs the night away. Karen, who wears red mesh tights and white Courrèges-style boots for real-life frugging, says that rock 'n' roll really gets through to her, especially those tear-drenched ballads about unrequited love. "I know what it's like to be blue," she sighs, "because that...
...were slow to recognize that such radio energy-the only radiation besides visible light that can penetrate the earth's atmosphere over a wide frequency range-might offer a powerful new tool for exploring the universe. Little was done to take advantage of the new tool until wartime radar research provided accurate directional antennas and improved electronic techniques...
...blind and the deaf will have new sight and new hearing. A pocket radar will scan a blind man's surroundings, relay the information either through sounds or through vibrations. A comparable device will let the deaf "hear." Artificial arms and legs could be motorized and computerized, perhaps linked to the brain, so that the wearer will find his impulse translated into action. Medical men foresee fetuses grown outside the uterus (in case women want to be spared the burdens of pregnancy) and human tissues grown to specifications. The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Willem J. Kolff prophesies "artificial...
...Around key targets, said one officer, antiaircraft installations have been increased "to the point of saturation." Some 65 Soviet SAM sites (v. 30 or so pre-pause) are in place in the Hanoi-Haiphong area alone, half of them manned by Russian crews and many equipped with sophisticated new radar systems. MIG-21s have been spotted on airstrips in the North. In the South, there was evidence that the Viet Cong guerrillas might be equipped for the first time with 20-mm. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns, which could seriously threaten the U.S. planes and helicopters that fly vital strafing...