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...Until one was brought down by a Soviet missile in 1960, causing a dramatic cold war confrontation, U-2s regularly flew over the Soviet Union, looking for signs of military buildup. About 30 U-2s are still in service, but a new version of the old bird, called the TR-1, is about to rise out of a mysterious Lockheed facility that produces supersecret military hardware for the Air Force Logistics Command. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, the first reporter ever to tour the plant, filed this account...
...Pentagon decided it needed a new version of the old spy plane. It would incorporate the latest "stealth" features as well as updated electronic snooping capability that can peer sideways over borders and transmit data-including TV-type pictures-directly back to military commanders on the ground. Twenty-five TR-ls will be built at a cost of $550 million. Thanks to Johnson's premonition, the bill will be a tidy $10 million less than it might have been had he not squirreled away those old tools...
House Committee, Vice-Ch., Tr...
Composers Balz Trümpy and York Holler, whose works followed, were in roughly the position of the actors in that children's play. Trümpy's Wellen-spiele made the first use ever of a digital sound processor. This is a new device that modifies sound as it is performed by an ensemble by the use of mikes onstage. Much of the composition was too bland to show off the new processor, but its climax was a long, breaking roll of waves accompanied by pulsing gongs. The Holler Arcus used the more conventional method of taping...
...both the Anglo-Catholic and Neo-Pentecostal movements. Before entering the ministry late in life, he was variously a jazz saxophonist, a member of a barnstorming aviation troupe, and a manager of several radio stations. Accompanied by his blind cocker spaniel Taffy, he zips around his parish in a TR...