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...first step in dealing with enemy radar is to locate it and determine its wavelength or frequency. This reconnaissance is done by "ferret" planes, specially equipped with electronic "search receivers," which pick up and locate operating enemy radar like stations on a home radio...
These detectors have a great advantage in range over Radar itself, which is limited to the distance at which it can get back a detectable echo of its initial signal. Thus American use of search receivers often deprived the enemy of the use of their own radar, particularly in submarines, because they shut it off to avoid detection...
Rice intersperses the action with dramatizations of a number of Miss Field's daydreams during the course of 20 spring hours, using them as a clever satire on popular conceptions of American life, to wit: murder, prostitution, law courts, trips to Mexico and so forth. But the search by Miss Field for a man, her final choice, and her reasons for it are less skillfully handled. And those things are essentially what the play is about...
...bomb has served the purpose for which it was conceived. Let one more be made and dropped on the two-billion-dollar project; let lips be sealed as to its secret; let each nation agree to punish by death any outlaw who presumes to foster its search...
...each of whose atoms contains the same number of electrons. Until recently, scientists thought there were 92 elements, ranging from hydrogen (with one electron circling round its nucleus) to uranium (with 92). All the intervening numbers had been accounted for. So the chemists sat back, feeling that their long search for elements had been completed...