Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bigger towns might consider it a boondoggle or an eyesore. But the depressed West Texas ranching town of Marfa (pop. 2,500) is delighted about the economic benefit of a 240-ft. radar surveillance balloon that the Customs Service has tethered nearby and plans to fly at an altitude of 14,000 ft. One of six in a planned network along the Mexican border, the helium-filled aerostat can spot suspected drug-smuggling planes up to 200 miles away, then flash data to authorities who will try to intercept the aircraft...
...take high-risk shots or rush the net seeking quick winners. She was ordinary in strength of serve and speed of hand and foot. But she was extraordinary in the precision and timing of her passing shots, her high, looping moon balls, her lobs that landed as if by radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment...
...Goring had roughly 1,400 bombers and nearly 1,000 fighters, the R.A.F. defenders fewer than 900 fighters. The opposing planes were roughly equal, the German Messerschmitts with a slightly faster rate of climb, the British Spitfires and Hurricanes more maneuverable. (The British also had some secret weapons: a radar warning system that the Germans greatly underestimated, and the Operation Ultra computer that broke most German military codes, particularly those of the Luftwaffe.) The outnumbered British fought with a kind of desperation that inspired Churchill to say of them, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed...
...that suffering, new ideas had been born, from the technologies of radar, sulfa drugs, jet aircraft and nuclear energy to the concepts of collective security, the Atlantic alliance and the United Nations. New horrors, almost beyond description, now had to be given names: fire storm, radiation, holocaust. But other terms suggested rays of hope: jeep, airlift and the symbol of three dots and a dash: V for victory...
Hughes Aircraft, the General Motors subsidiary that makes aircraft radar systems and missiles for the F-15 jet, has announced plans to lay off 6,000 of its 75,000 employees in Southern California. No new planes are being built at the Lockheed aircraft plant just north of Atlanta, which once produced such military mainstays as the C-130 and C-5 transports. Reduced to performing subcontracting jobs for Boeing and Northrop, the plant has chopped its 20,000- worker payroll in half...