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...Many books no longer sit on shelves, waiting to be read. Nowadays, books -as well as plays and poems-speak out loud. For a survey of the latest of this sort, see BOOKS, The Spoken Word...
...simplest countermeasure, says Klass, is radio jamming that drowns out enemy radar or communications by brute electronic force. This sort of thing is now considered as crude as bayonet fighting. The modern objective is to blind the enemy, make him see double or lead him astray, preferably without letting him know that anything is amiss...
...mistakes for another airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...
Code & Flares. All such tricks and more have long been familiar to every military nation, and many cycles of subtlety have been built upon them. Modern radars change their frequencies quickly and also change the length and shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...
...many people believed that President Eisen-hower announced just such a reorganization in his televised speech on the missiles program. One Boston newspaper ran a vast headline which declared, "KILLIAN APPOINTED MISSILES CZAR." While Killian is an adviser of some sort, he is certainly not a missile czar. Nor, for that matter, is William Holaday, special assistant on guided missiles to the Secretary of Defense, a missile-czar. At best, Holaday represents an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy by adding another bureau-crat. Neither he nor Killian can do anything more than advise the already over-advised...