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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.

The article reports on the development of gadgets such as radars, sonar, mobile telephone, and magnetic mine at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the U.S. From the British technology magnetron, the modern radars was developed. The author explores the advantages and enhancements in these technologies.

The article looks a the potential of television (TV) as an advertising medium. Varying comments on the proper use of advertising on TV are presented. According to scientific tests, TV is more effective in advertising than ordinary broadcasting. Research on TV stimulated U.S. scientists and manufacturers to create the radar industry.

Focuses on the air defense against atomic attack proposed by scientists Vannevar Bush and Lloyd V. Berkner in the U.S. Advantage and disadvantage of radar; Locations of strategic bases built for the Long-Range Air Army; Revolution in the art of weaponry for air defense.

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.

The article discusses a ruling issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals on the collision between motorships Pole Star and Santa Anita in 1956. The radar of the Pole Star revealed its distance with Santa Anita but Santa Anita lacks its radar. The captain of the Pole Star went below for much-needed sleep because he anticipated that two ships were on parallel courses and could not collide. But the Pole Star rammed and sank the other ship. The court decided that Pole Star owners must pay the damages because the captain of Santa Anita had used due care compared with Pole Star captain who did not stick to his radar and for merely guessing that the other ship was on a parallel course.

The article focuses on the invention of a traffic radar, or better known as the Electromatic Speed Meter developed by a company in Norwalk, Connecticut. A transmitter-receiver unit in a small black box is placed on a fender with its black glass front facing oncoming traffic. The policeman jots down the licenses and descriptions of violators, and radios them to a second police car stationed a mile farther along the highway.