Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever had to demonstrate. While people around the world listened with deep anxiety, Major Cooper seemed cooler than any man on earth. Finally, he piloted his craft into the atmosphere, and his communications blacked out. After four minutes of excruciating silence from space, he was sighted by radar-and moments later, a roar of triumph came from sailors aboard the carrier Kearsarge, 115 miles east-southeast of Midway. Four miles off the port bow, Cooper's orange and white chute floated down through a brilliant blue sky. He was safe-he had done what his equipment could...
...announcer is seeking a home for a clerk who has changed into a spotted dog. "The government is also investigating reports that several people have turned into-quaawk-have turned into . . ." and he trails off into a long rooster cackle. Very popular is a hat with a small rotating radar antenna built into its crown. "It's my four-minute early-warning hat," explains its owner. "Gives me that extra minute...
Oddest structure will be the Meeting Center-looking like a mammoth radar dish from below and half a grapefruit from above-which will contain a 750-seat auditorium, a 300-seat conference room, plus several smaller conference rooms and exhibit space for state government units. At the south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload...
Largely supporting itself by making and hand-testing military radar antennas, struggling Scientific-Atlanta got a Signal Corps order in 1954 to develop a new plastic lens antenna. It needed a recorder to test the patterns of the more sophisticated antenna, but the cheapest recorder cost $10,000-just about the company's net worth at the time. Robinson rounded up consultants from Georgia Tech, worked day and night for five months, finally developed a homemade recorder that was more accurate and could be sold more cheaply than those on the market. The recorder converts radio signals passing through...
...think the butler did it?" one faculty member was quoted as saying after hearing the first installment of Snow's narrative about a conflict between two English scientists over the development of radar...