Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band of a dozen or so guerrillas stealthily reconnoitered the base of Hill 327, a 1,073-ft. hump nicknamed "the hungry i" for the San Francisco nightclub and for the "I" Company marines who first occupied it. Each time, the marines detected the guerrillas with new, man-spotting radar devices that are emplaced all over the hill. Modeled after the dish-shaped radar used on airport control towers, the devices are around 5 ft. tall and are highly sensitive to movements by troops...
...minute later, the Eastern aircraft, piloted by Captain Frederick R. Carson, 41, rose over the ocean. "How does he shape up with that boy coming in . . . the guy at his 1 o'clock position?" asked New York Control. "We're above him," said the radar operator at the airport. Actually Flight 663 was well below Pan American's 212 at the time-but traffic controllers corrected their error almost instantly. Shortly after 6:25 p.m., Eastern's Carson radioed that he was at 3,700 ft., said he saw "the traffic"-the Pan American flight approaching...
...Eastern plane had plunged toward the ocean eight miles off Jones Beach. It blew up in an orange ball of fire at water level, went to the bottom 75 ft. below. At Kennedy Airport the radar operators sounded the alarm the instant they realized that the blip representing Flight 663 had disappeared from their screens...
...space capsule, of course, has been redesigned. Its outside dimensions are only slightly larger than Mercury's, but room has been made inside for a second man. New equipment includes instruments for coupling with another craft in space, radar control and ejection seats...
...four-year period, only seven or eight Red soldiers have defected along the enormous border running from Hong Kong to Pakistan. In recent years, more recruits have come from the cities than the rural areas because urban youths are more literate and thus better able to handle trucks, switchboards, radar, and all the other devices necessary to even a semi-modern army. This represents a calculated risk, since city youth are not so docile or amenable to discipline as farm boys are. Behind the front-line troops, China has around 12 million militiamen, some of whom are retired combat soldiers...