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This article presents world news briefs. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has announced that the U.S. will not be pushed out of Berlin, Germany by threats from Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. The United States released findings concerning a ring of radiation enveloping the earth that disrupted radio, radar, and other communications. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an Executive Order limiting and assigning quotas for the import of oil.

Evaluates Safeguard programs launched by the U.S. President, Richard Nixon to counter the threat imposed by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) of the Soviet Union. Comparison of ICBM missiles possessed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Features of ICBM; Opinion of Pentagon's research chief, John S. Foster Jr. on the ability of Soviet SS-9 missiles to hit multiple targets; Ability of Minutemen silos to counter the Soviet missile threat; Information regarding the Over The Horizon radars, which is operational at permanent overseas bases.

Discusses the effect of the war on British science and the advances in scientific knowledge. Discovery of the anti-bacterial properties of penicillin and the development of radio-location, or radar, initiated in Great Britain; Effect of war in hastening the development of industrial research in Britain; Problem that had to be solved during the war; Impact of scientific research on postwar development; Reports on the release of men from the military and civil services; Account on the indecision of the Administration and the War and Navy Departments in laying out plans for demobilization.

This article refers to the incident in which Civil Aeronautics Administrator Frederick B. Lee emphasizes on the need of the implanting new radars to control the air traffic conditions and avert accidents. Now that public scrutiny has turned on him. Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose domain includes CAA, has instructed the agency to draft a request for a $35 million supplemental appropriation for air traffic control. But only six months ago, Secretary Weeks and his Under-Secretary for Transportation, Kansas City department store owner Louis Rothschild were so anxious to protect the public against such a level of expenditure that they forced the showdown which resulted in Lee's dismissal.

Reports on concerns over a possible conversion of the Soviets' anti-aircraft defense missile systems into anti-ballistic missile systems (ABMs). Possible impact on the U.S.; Technology requirements; Problems with the system; Why many of the site locations are not suited for missile defense; Information on the U.S. Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle programs; Necessary features of an ABM system, including high-powered, highly complex radars.

Highlights the uses of radar, electronic equipment that used to detect distant objects. Assistance to computers in locating German batteries; Dependence of radar on radio waves; Steps in the discovery of radar; Invention of Echolot, an echo-sounding device for ships; Discussion of Plan Position Indication radar, which discloses storm areas and thunderstorms.

Focuses on scientific development and equality in the U.S. View of Brooklyn-based Alexander Stern that government control of science represents a real menace; Opinion of Stern that the discoveries in pure science which underlie radar and the atomic bomb could not have been made under a system of governmental control; Information that equal-rights amendment has now been reported favorably by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives and by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Presents an insight to the socio-political situation related to the United States. Revealment that the United States and Great Britain possess a potentially world destroying invention; Assertion that radar was the most dramatic and decisive weapon of the World War II after the atomic bomb; Reference to Harry S. Truman as being modest and having commonsense and a considerable gift for leadership in the emergency period; Illustration of the contrast in Anglo-American diplomatic pay.