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...antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...
Agreed that "all identity discs in heaven are marked RC," but with all respect to the late Monsignor Knox, his Protestant brethren think it means Redeemed Christian. The Jew wears his happily as one of the Returned Chosen, while the Buddhist feels he has Realized Contentment. For the Hindu it simply indicates he is a Reincarnation Candidate until he has Reached Completion...
...Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
...fence are being filled. On the East Coast a chain of some 25 radar stations, called Texas Towers because they resemble oil-drilling platforms in the Gulf off Texas, are to be anchored on the continental shelf up to 125 miles offshore. On both coasts flights of RC-121Cs, "Pregnant Geese", bulging with six tons of radar equipment, will soon maintain patrols around the clock. Canada is already building the mid-Canada line of small, semiautomatic, electronic-detection stations along the 55th parallel, about 500 miles north of the U.S. border...
...such as the unaccompanied unison of piano and plucked celli, for purposes of contrast or emphasis. The third movement is a clever seven-part rondo, the theme of which is an anagrammatic treatment of Miss Besser's name ("S" being the German designation for E flat, and "R" representing rc, or D). The theme appears in several guises, bandied about by piano and orchestra until the powerful inevitable climax. While the piano part does not stand out brilliantly from its orchestral context, it still needs a virtuoso performance. Miss Besser, both technically and interpretively, gave it just that...