Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VANSERG HALL was hastily built in 1943 by the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development as a radar laboratory. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, which under one name or another designed all the River Houses, departed from the neo-Georgian elegance that characterized their earlier work for Harvard and put together a plain three-story structure with a flat roof and red shingles...
...Syrians were "incompetent and cowardly," the Soviets complained. The SAMS are mobile missiles. So what did the Syrians do? They left them in one place, rooted like oaks, and the Israelis knocked them down. And in the air? Those MiGs are equipped with a buzzer that goes off when radar locks on a plane, a warning that a missile may be fired. When Syrian pilots heard the buzzer, they were so frightened that they bailed out before they knew if a missile was even fired or not, said the disgusted Soviets...
...late. The men rushed forward and arrested him. The charge: conspiring to export advanced electronic defense gear illegally. Inside two Samsonite suitcases that Kessler had checked, agents found more than $200,000 worth of radar and communications testing equipment made by Hughes Aircraft Corp. Last week Kessler and two accused accomplices went on trial in Los Angeles. Kessler, wearing a rumpled suit this time, was handcuffed as he entered the federal courtroom. He and Dierk Hagemann of West Germany and Robert Lambert, a California export consultant, sat silently while their lawyers questioned prospective jurors. The products confiscated at the airport...
Such ads would certainly be interesting. In the first batch of 307 parcels, there is something for everyone. Care for a piece of out-of-the-way America? An abandoned Air Force radar installation station on an acre at Cottonwood, Idaho, could be just the ticket. Prefer something in the East? The 105 acres adjacent to the Saint Albans Air Force Station in northwest Vermont might be worth a look. Feeling urban? The Frankford Arsenal, an 87.7-acre complex of 167 buildings, sheds and loading docks in Philadelphia, has all kinds of possibilities. The sale will offer property in every...
...unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex scheme to station a permanent unmanned weather observatory high above the brightly colored clouds of Jupiter. The only mission on J.P.L.'s immediate horizon is an astronomical satellite. To be launched this December, it will...