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...with sensitive gadgets-radio and radar devices, microbarographs and seismographs recording pressure and earth waves of possible nuclear blasts, high-flying planes collecting air samples that might contain nuclear debris. Far above them have soared the U.S.'s Samos and Midas, orbiting surveillance satellites equipped with photo and infra-red detectors...
Aerojet-General Corp., a subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber Co., builds solid-and liquid-fueled rocket engines for a host of missiles. It also produces infra-red sensors and missile support gear. 1960 sales: $425 million...
...only his fifth major league season, Maris was already assured of making about $67,000: some $42,000 in salary and World Series bonus, another $25,000 in fees for personal appearances and "testimonials" for such assorted products as Camel cigarettes, Infra-Rub and Aqua Velva after-shave lotion. But his busy agent, Frank Scott (other clients: Mantle, Warren Spahn, Willie Mays), estimates that movie and magazine rights to Roger's life story, royalties from a "Maris" candy bar and TV appearances (at $7,500 each) may boost his income by as much...
...ultraviolet infiltrating the atmosphere produces simple organic molecules. At the same time, the sun's rays penetrate to the planet's surface, inducing infra-red radiation. The cloud cover traps this heat, forming the oceans of water or ammonia into which the falling molecules (formed at the impressive rate of ten pounds per square mile per year) dissolve. This process, says Sagan, "would create the conditions necessary for complex pre-biological organic reactions." By his reckoning, Jupiter's rind may not be icy at all, and its surface temperature (70° F.) may be balmy enough...
Russia's most useful eavesdropping weapon is a tiny, kopeck-sized reflector. It was such a reflector, installed inside a plaque of the U.S. Great Seal in the Moscow embassy, that U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge displayed to the Security Council last year. When an infra-red beam is aimed at the reflector from outdoors, it acts as a microphone. Alternatively, but less reliably, the infra-red beam can be trained on any imperceptibly oscillating object, such as a metal lampshade or empty highball glass, that can act as a crude reflector for conversation...