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...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...
Manley, a former Rhodes scholar, howled for a Royal investigation and Bustamante's arrest. Adapting Churchill's rhetoric to Jamaican terrain, Manley vowed that his unions would "fight in the streets, lanes and bedrooms." But pistol-toting Bustamante, who seemed to be getting Colonial Office support, chortled: "They'll get no mercy. They struck against the government...
...physicist, Sir Edward Appleton, the man who proved that the earth is swaddled in concentric, electrically charged layers of atmosphere. Sir Edward's theory: radio echoes, bounced off the moon's surface by an extremely short-waved transmitter, could be used to picture the moon's terrain...
Beyond television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
...Brodie system" was designed for light liaison planes. The masts and cables would be hard for an enemy to spot from the air and could be set up quickly in tough terrain. In peacetime, the gadget may well prove useful in mountainous jungles or swampy country where clearing a landing strip is too difficult or too expensive...