Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...empire-building yen for them. They included a nuclear-powered aircraft, killed in 1961 after 15 years' work and the expenditure of a billion dollars; a jet-powered flying boat on which $450 million was spent; the Goose decoy missile, a pilotless aircraft to fool enemy radar, canceled after $80 million in costs because the contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that were so similar in purpose that a congressional committee...
...Buffalo, it runs a $15 million-a-year aeronautical research lab. In Manhattan, it boasts one of the top medical colleges in the country. From India to Peru, it counts 1,500 aid and research projects, including the world's largest radar (for ionosphere study), abuilding in Puerto Rico. Scholarly names dot the faculty of 1,650-Physicist Hans Bethe, Astronomer Thomas Gold, Critic Arthur Mizener, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature in Ithaca while writing Lolita...
...that four Soviet Russian Bear bombers had made nine passes over the Constellation about 600 miles southwest of Midway. Earlier, McNamara had announced four other such overflights. These flights could hardly help point up the vulnerability of the carriers-despite Navy insistence that the Soviet planes were detected on radar while still 200 miles from the Constellation, were intercepted by the carrier's planes while some 100 miles away and were escorted in their passes. When asked whether the announcement of the over flights had anything to do with McNamara's doubts about carriers, a top Defense Department...
...frog could catch insects with RCA's crude and ponderous eye, but the Air Force has high hopes of developing it into a practical instrument that can view a scene and make instant, frog-quick decisions. Unblinkingly focused on a radar scope, it might report only those aircraft or missiles that are potentially hostile. In an even more refined version, it could ride in a missile and steer its warhead toward targets that it had been trained to seek...
...first class, 560 cabin, 700 tourist) in roomy cabins, have 30 salons and six swimming pools, closed-circuit TV, overall air conditioning and 18 elevators to serve eleven decks. (Still highly sensitive to the Andrea Doria disaster, the line has also installed extra watertight compartments and two modern radar systems.) The new ships' motto is ''Living like a lord." For passengers who find it hard to relax even amid such luxury, the Italian Line will offer special therapeutic treatments designed to calm nerves...