Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen. A fine private with his bayonet fixed...
...charged with espionage. He can never talk shop with his wife or pass on gossip that could reveal a colleague's foibles and lead to blackmail. With friends, he must listen closely to others' conversation, be continually alert to give or obey the service's traditional signal to change the subject: a long, pointed look at the ceiling. In time, the naturally communicative, libertarian American citizen tends to react to constant surveillance with moods of black depression...
...mark the eighth anniversary of the East German uprising. At dusk, thousands gathered to hear Brandt cry: "We will survive because we have good friends." All over the city, West Berliners put candles in their windows and lit huge bonfires plainly visible in the Communist sector as the signal of their determination to keep the flame of freedom alive...
...Research has been loading homing pigeons with tiny, transistorized radio transmitters designed by American Electronic Laboratories, Inc. of Philadelphia. Despite four batteries and a 40-in. trailing antenna, each transmitter weighs only 2½ oz. and does not overburden an airworthy pigeon. For 20 hours, it sends out a signal that can be picked up by directional receivers tracking the pigeon to its home loft...
...added little to its pigeon lore. But seagoing scientists have far more ambitious experiments in mind. Porpoises, another animal uncannily clever at navigation, will be fitted with larger transmitters in the hope of learning how the aquatic mammals set their course. Eventually, the Navy hopes, its little radios will signal defeat for an ancient enemy: the albatrosses (known as gooney birds) that nest by the thousands on Midway Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that gooney birds navigate to their breeding island by following the earth's magnetic field...