Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FAMILY ALBUM, Steel...
...long balloons are linked to ground stations by steel cables. Hanging from their bellies are 1,000-lb. platforms with $3.5 million in sophisticated radar equipment similar to that carried by AWACS planes. Though the balloons have been known to come unleashed (one wanderer had to be shot down in 1981), airborne radar is still more efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close...
...FAMILY ALBUM, Steel...
...otherwise, when they must raise up arms, and wings, against tyranny long established and struggle for their inalienable rights as animals. Such was the brave effort last week to free Ibis L. Threskiornis '89 from his perch atop the Harvard Lampoon building where he had sat tethered by a steel cable for more than three decades...
...Family Album, Steel (1 last week...