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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 300 miles above the earth were conducted by the United States early last September." So began last week the year's biggest news beat: a report by New York Times Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin on Project Argus-an attempt to gauge the behavior of high-speed electrons in the earth's magnetic field (see SCIENCE). The story was much more than a beat. Working on Argus, Reporter Baldwin months ago got into the precarious position of having to decide when and how-if at all-to use material that could critically influence the course...
Late in 1957 Christofilos (see below) became convinced that high-speed electrons released above the earth's atmosphere would be trapped by the magnetic field and circulate in complicated paths for a considerable time. When Dr. James A. Van Allen discovered shortly afterward by means of the Army's Explorer satellites that such a radiation belt actually existed and conformed to the predicted magnetic contours, the Christofilos suggestion looked even more reasonable. But no one knew whether man could produce enough electrons to affect the whole earth or whether they would prove, in the words of one scientist...
Forty Knots in the Bank. The Navy is mum about Skipjack's performance on her first trial, but her submerged speed beat the top speed of the Albacore (30 knots), and may be in the range of 40 knots (46 m.p.h.). Few if any surface ships can travel so fast except over a glassy-smooth sea. A fast surface ship expends most of her energy in raising waves in the interface between sea and air. But the Skipjack has no such problems...
...problems she does encounter come from her very speed. Noise caused by water passing rapidly over the ship's skin and control surfaces can play hob with delicate sonar gear. The Skipjack's forward planes (used to raise or lower the bow during underwater maneuvers) are a particularly noisy item, so they were moved to the sail to keep them as far as possible from the sonar in the bow. Another trouble is control. The Skipjack's maximum depth has not been announced, but even if it is better than 1,000 ft., the ship...
...Radar. The story of the Andrea Doria sinking, less than three years ago, is far better known, but its retelling is no less exciting. The 29,000-ton Doria revived Titanic's builders' claims of being an unsinkable ship. Relying on her radar eyes, she barely slackened speed (from 23 to 21.8 knots) as she slammed westward through thick fog past Nantucket lightship on a July night in 1956. Approaching her, eastbound, was the Stockholm, also radar-equipped. Reporter Moscow, who sifted 6,000 pages of testimony, does not solve the mystery of how two ships with radar...