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...strikes with the swift, clawed fury of a pouncing cat-and jet pilots call it by that name. CAT (for clear air turbulence) can swat a jetliner down a mile in a minute flat, paste passengers to the ceiling, and rip the wings from light planes. Many CAT victims go uncounted because up to now CAT has been invisible...
...usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track of CAT...
...adding a low-noise amplifier to their radar, RCA engineers discovered that they could track CAT even better; they followed its path with a clear, rapidly wiggling line on their radarscopes. Last week RCA had two modified C-band sets at work-one in Moorestown, N.J., and another on the DAMP (for Downrange Anti-Missile Measurement Program) ship in the South Atlantic. Once they are certain they have cornered CAT, avoiding its dangerous attack will be a simple matter for the careful pilot...
Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
...three belong to some children in northern Ontario, but they are staying in a town 250 miles from home while the children are away. Suddenly the Labrador heaves a sigh of nostalgia, sniffs the wind, heads for home. The cat and the terrier tag along, perhaps vaguely aware that they are going back where they belong but certainly unaware that in order to get there they must somehow cross some of the roughest country in Canada...