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Computers & Rockets. Scientists have devised countless ways to make use of the controlled output of fluidic circuits. A fluidic guidance system can control the course of a torpedo by shooting out jets of gas or sucking in water. This distorts the surrounding boundary layer of water, changes its frictional effects and causes the torpedo to turn. In a rocket flying through the atmosphere, the control jets of a fluidic stabilization system are attached to vents in the rocket's nose cone. As the attitude of the rocket be gins to change, the nose vents gulp in air at different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Taking a Fluid Approach | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...flyers are war criminals, the President told his press conference, is "deplorable and repulsive." In a departure from its usual practice of turning prisoners over to South Viet Nam's forces, the U.S. made known that it held 19 North Vietnamese sailors captured last month when their torpedo boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin-with the implication that they were hostages against a possible exchange of prisoners. From President Johnson came a proposal for a Red Cross-sponsored conference to bring about enforcement of the 1949 Geneva Convention, which specifically prohibits reprisals against prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Deplorable & Repulsive | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...Europe, Charles de Gaulle is doing his best to torpedo NATO, the basic framework of the American military position on the Continent. One reason he can afford to do so, of course, is that the threat of Russian aggression has subsided, largely because the U.S. presence has made Europe too risky and unrewarding a field for Russian adventure. As Defense Secretary Robert McNamara points out: "The focus of the U.S. defense problem has shifted perceptibly toward the Far East." There, the U.S. not only has committed some 330,000 men in and around South Viet Nam, but also faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: UPDATING THE WORLD S BIGGEST MILITARY MACHINE | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito navy of the anti-Castro exiles buzzes up to bite away at fortress Cuba, as it did in Havana harbor last week, the recruits behind Castro's hardware curiously seem to be looking the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: More Mosquito Bites | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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