Word: suppressor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With each sortie, too, goes an "Iron Handle" of four suppressor planes-one a pathfinder able to finger SAM radar signals, the three others armed with rockets, notably the 10-ft. Shrike, which homes in on radar radiations. Last week Iron Handle flights hit ten SAM installations out of the total estimated 100 sites in North Viet Nam. Though the SAMs have had little direct success-bringing down 14 U.S. planes out of 296 launchings in the year since the first was fired -they do aid the enemy in another respect. Because SAMs are most effective at high altitudes, they...
...rays or chemicals in advance to suppress the body's tendency to reject a graft from anyone other than an identical twin. For this job the Brigham doctors had decided to rely on drugs, and they used a battery of the most potent available: azathioprine (a new immunity suppressor), actinomycin C (an antibiotic used against some cancers), a cortisone-type hormone, heart stimulants, diuretics and even bicarbonate of soda. Time and again, the transplanted kidney began to fail as his body tried to get rid of this "foreign tissue." But each time the drugs...
...strong smog-control bill, aimed at smog-choked Los Angeles, requiring that cars in California be fitted with suppressors to cut down on engine hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Progress will be slow: first the state has to approve a suppressor design; then motorists have to get the smog-stopper installed...