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...Rings Away. As SAC commander, Power is never more than six rings away from telephones that can put him in immediate touch with the President, the Joint Chiefs, and a global network of 75 SAC bases. Even his golf cart is rigged with communications gear. As commander of the 200-man, multiservice Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff, he is also charged with assigning targets to every bomber and guided missile in the U.S. arsenal...
...find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt sound and electronic impulses in the gear that is tracking the incoming missiles...
...maximum of three people that most sailboats are ideally designed to carry. It rode far up in the water to decrease splashing while under way, had a peculiarly high boom to clear landlubbers' heads when it swung around too fast, included such gadgets as shelves for feminine gear. An ugly duckling it was, but at $2,000 apiece O'Day got so many orders for Day Sailers that it took his tiny plant nearly three years to catch...
...useless as a relay station. Last week's successor, Syncom II, did better. As the satellite climbed toward orbit more than two hours after launch, the Navy communications ship Kingsport, anchored at Lagos, Nigeria, called it by microwave radio. Syncom II answered smartly, proving that its electronics gear was healthy. The satellite even bounced a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner back to the Kingsport...
...homeowners in Alaska, induced Saudi Arabia's King Saud to provide air conditioning for 2,000 of his siblings, sons, sweethearts and hangers-on in the royal palace at Riyadh. An air-conditioned big league baseball stadium is going up in Houston, and $487,000 worth of cooling gear is being installed in the White House. Last week Carrier Corp., the industry's leader, landed an order to cool 180 new Chicago subway cars, and the Hartford Gas Co., which sells metered cooling and heating to office buildings, started operating the world's largest air conditioner...