Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heartening as were the turnouts in Honolulu and Pago Pago, the President's greatest reception awaited him after he crossed the international dateline. At New Zealand's Ohakea Royal Air Force Station, a grimacing Maori with a poised spear advanced on the Johnsons in the traditional "friend or foe?" challenge. In tribute to the first U.S. President to visit his country, the warrior dropped two darts at his feet (Queen Elizabeth rates three...
This summer Washington made news -- perhaps -- when a crowd of young people threw sticks and rocks at a police station in the Anacostia section of Washington, while one or two boys with a keen sense of the dramatic shouted, "Let's go get the cocktails!" Local newspapers immediately christened the outburst a "riot," and the police did their best to make it one by sending for a pack of dogs with their handlers, white men from Brandywine, Maryland, on the ends of their leashes...
...Call "Station X." The city council put up $100,000 as a contingency fund to bankroll a massive man hunt. Police went on an emergency no-days-off basis, beefed up the homicide division by transferring the entire vice squad to that duty. A special "Station X" was set up at police headquarters to receive calls about the strangler; 900 came during the first eight hours it was in service last week...
With RSA, scientists can reconstruct the characteristics of a foreign satellite from the pattern of radar pulses it reflects back to a tracking station. Largely by measuring the amplitude, or strength, of the reflected pulses, they can calculate the satellite's size; by analyzing the variations in pulse amplitude caused by the satellite's rotation or merely by its passage across the sky, they can determine its shape with remarkable precision. By determining the time it takes the pulse pattern to repeat itself, they can learn how fast the distant space craft is tumbling, rolling or spinning around...
Space Graphology. For such satellites as the U.S. Geminis or Agenas -or, indeed, for intercontinental missiles - their shapes are a dead giveaway. When, for example, the conical nose of a tumbling projectile-like satellite is pointed directly at a ground radar station (see diagram), the radar "sees" only a small cross section; the reflected pulse is scattered in all directions, and the radar reading is relatively weak. As the projectile begins to swing broadside to the radar, however, its radar cross section increases; reflections become stronger. When the satellite's flat rear surface turns to face the radar antenna...