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Electronic Trails around the World 1 .HE Greek mountain of Parnassus, in legend the spiritual retreat of Apollo, the Muses, and the Corycian nymphs, is crowned today by a parabolic radar antenna of American make and design. The antenna rotates on a rectangular block of white marble which might, and by all poetic standards should, have come from Apollo's 3000-year-old temple on the southern flank of Parnassus The temple, its foundation still standing, formed the heart of the Delphic precinct. Delphi was, figuratively speaking, home territory for the Muses, those female divinities who presided over science, poetry, and art. Their science, presumably, did not embrace radar; but some unknown Greek workmen, schooled in mythology, possibly saw a link between the two. In any event, the radar apparatus was joined to a chunk of marble once exposed to the oracular winds and volcanic gases that carried messages from the Muses. The workmen might have reasoned that radar, like the Muses, opened a door to the unknown. "I couldn't swear," says P. B. ("Pincky") Reed, Vice- President in Charge of the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica's Government Service Department, "that the marble came from the old ruins. But that's what one of my Greek hosts told me. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if it did." An Electronic Trail Few things, indeed, would surprise Mr. Reed in the way of history, legend, or local custom. He has traveled well over 100,000 miles in the last three years. In one month alone, he logged 30,000 air miles hopping from New York to Alaska to Japan to Korea to Formosa to the Philippines to Guam to Hawaii and, finally, to California. P. B. Reed, enjoying a rare pause on his global beat, inspects the Parthenon with a Greek guide. Mr. Reed has a passing acquaintance with Ionic columns, Buddhist temples, Arctic shelters and Formosan cutlery. He acquired it simply by pursuing an electronic equipment trail around the globe. Wherever the Amer- ican military establishment harnesses the electron, Mr. Reed can be counted upon, sooner or later, to pop up. And if Mr. Reed isn't around, the odds are that one or more of his team of over 1,000 skilled electronic technicians is. They work with the armed services in 22 foreign countries, in the United States and in U. S. possessions. They train military technicians on the in- stallation and service of radar, loran, shoran, two-way radio, guided missiles systems, microwave equipment, and the host of other RCA electronic devices in use by the Army, Navy and Air Force. 16 RADIO AGE