Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead reckoning that oldtime sailors used in bad weather when they could not shoot the sun has a modern counterpart "in Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing...
Another new gadget that does dead reckoning for aircraft is made by Ford Instrument Co. Simpler than the Ryan job, it estimates the effect of the wind in advance. Then it records the air speed and the course the airplane follows. It puts the whole thing together and figures out the airplane's position on a map. Average accuracy on a 1,000-mile flight: within about six miles...
...Robert Ryan bosses a little band of thieves with a nice military precision. He and his men are ex-G.I.s. and they play their game like an army patrol in action...
After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...
...Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...