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...least two students were treated for injuries as the University and Cambridge high school students fought to touch, shake hands with, or just to see the General. Eisenhower's coat was torn and the radio antenna and license plate of his car were ripped off in the near riot. The General kept smiling throughout...
After a year of airwave conversation, Prince Talal, 22, son of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, flew to Sardinia to meet a ham-radio pal, pretty Maria Marras, 23, daughter of a Cagliari dentist. The visit over, the Prince gave Maria a present: a new $1,500 antenna for her set calculated to bring his voice in loud and clear...
...telecasting last week from Huntington, W.Va. WSAZ, the only transmitter in the state, had already pioneered by building its own microwave relay stations to link up with the coaxial cable at Cincinnati. It boosted its power to 84,000 watts by installing a 25-kilowatt amplifier and a special antenna with a "gain" of approximately 3.4 times that number. Phone calls and telegrams showed that the TV image is being received in towns nearly 120 miles away. The station estimates an increase of 30,000 square miles in its reception area, plus some 100,000 new families...
...path of a battleship, a light plane was brushed by a DC-6 airliner coming in to land with 55 passengers at Dallas one morning last week. The light plane crashed and its two occupants were killed. Damage to the airliner: one nicked propeller, a severed radio antenna. Said the pilot: "We just saw a quick flash of metal and felt a slight bump. I asked the tower what hit us. Then we made a routine landing...
Despite its rearmament backlog, Raytheon is not neglecting its civilian market, including commercial radar. It recently built the world's biggest antenna for the harbor of Le Havre, France. Last week, with long-sluggish TV sales picking up once more, President Adams flew out to Chicago to show off Belmont's newest "Vu-Matic" television models. The "Vu" stands for very high frequency and ultra-high frequency. Raytheon claims its new tuners will be able to cover the whole radio spectrum...