Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit or the moon are far too valuable to drop into the unpredictable ocean. If they head for a land spaceport, they can be guided by radar stations from positions that are stationary and precisely located. Their pilots will be able to guide on well-known landmarks...
...example, if something suspicious is picked up on a radar screen, although it may be only a "flock of geese," a country must act on the assumption that the enemy is attacking, and launch its own offensive...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...
...prize is too valuable for Dr. Vonnegut to quit. Next summer he and his frustrated Joves will return to Mount Withington armed with new apparatus, including giant bows and arrows, for firing fine wires high into lightning-charged clouds. The experiment, they point out, has an eminently practical purpose. Radar observation of thunderclouds has shown that lightning often precedes the formation of rain. Vonnegut suspects that the lightning creates vast numbers of charged particles that cause a cloud's small water droplets to attract one another and swell into drops large enough to fall as rain...
...coffee, you are already in trouble." Most vendors, however, believe that solving the costly problems of hot food selling is only a matter of time. Wolff's Interstate is currently testing a quick-cook process designed to heat a complete frozen meal in 15 seconds. If the radar stove works, food waste in automated cafeterias should be much reduced. The optimists among vending operators look forward to a time when they will be taking in as much as $15 million a day on meals alone...