Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while hardly forgotten, is mainly being directed against a new target: the Soviet Union. In New York, a man in a ski mask left a bomb at Aeroflot's Manhattan office Sunday night, Jan. 13; the explosion stunned three French passersby. At Long Island-MacArthur Airport, which handles radar controls for the area's three major airports, Controller Tony Maimone refused to guide an Aeroflot jet into Kennedy. Said he: "If I have to lose my job to show the Soviets that we won't be pushed around, it's worth it." At Kennedy baggage handlers...
Fazal's divisions are armed with such obsolete equipment as 2½-ton American trucks, reconditioned after the Korean War. Roads in the area are not wide enough for modern tanks, and radar is virtually nonexistent along the western frontier. Nonetheless, Fazal estimated that the border could be made defensible within ten months by widening roads, upgrading communications and improving local railroads. The cost: $1 billion...
...Wednesday, 7 p.m.-ll p.m.: ate dinner, read texts on radar for term paper, slept 2½ hours. 1 1 p.m.3 a.m.: deck watch...
...machines suggested that if a single worker came in 15 minutes early each morning to warm up all the machines, everyone could start work as soon as he arrived. The saving: about $22,000 a year. - Another circle, of people who use color-coded tapes to assemble transformers for radar systems, recommended that each worker be given his own tape machine rather than sharing on a three-for-one basis. The twelve extra machines cost $174, but the company saves some $11,000 a year in production time. - A purchasing-department circle noted that when supplies were ordered, many vendors...
...shows. At the start of each episode, Marc announces, "Science is fun," and then tries to prove it. Cartoons are shown to explain how things work, and celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known as the Bloodhound Gang, who reason their way to the solution of a crime...