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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With routine briskness, a U.S. Air Force officer walked into Berlin's four-power Air Safety Center one day last fortnight, filed a flight plan for an incoming C-130 Lockheed Hercules turboprop transport plane. Altitude for the flight through the Berlin air corridor to the Communist-surrounded city: 25,000 ft. Instantly, the Soviet representative at A.S.C. protested; ever since the four powers occupied Berlin, the Russians have arbitrarily set an altitude ceiling for non-Russian planes at 10,000 ft., reserved the airspace above for themselves. The U.S. officer shrugged casually at the protest. The Russian reached...
Stepping into Schriever's shoes at B.M.D. will be his deputy, Brigadier General Osmond J. Ritland, 49, an old Air Corps test pilot who handled a long line of research and development assignments until 1950, when he was made commander of the Air Force Special Weapons Center's Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Until 1953, when he went off to Washington to study at the Armed Forces Industrial College, Ritland was responsible for the air phase of continental nuclear testing, got his assignment under Schriever...
...most respects, the Prime Minister of India was much the same old Nehru after Tibet as he had been before: while granting political asylum to the Dalai Lama, he was still busily placating Peking. When Red China charged that Kalimpong was the "command center" of the rebellion, Nehru at first denied the charge, then admitted that the border town was indeed a hotbed of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink, white." He refused to be bothered by the fact that the Chinese embassy circulated an editorial repeating the old Kalimpong charges even after he denied them; after...
...English-born electrical engineer who helped make some of the first seismographic explorations of oilfields in the 1930s has given stock worth $2,527,500 to set up a center for geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and related fields at M.I.T. The donor, whose gift, made jointly with his wife, was announced this week: Cecil H. Green (M.I.T. '23), vice president of Texas Instruments, Inc., a Dallas electronics firm, and board chairman of Geophysical Service, Inc., a subsidiary outfit that does seismographic exploration in 21 countries. Said M.I.T.'s President Julius Stratton: "The earth sciences stand on the threshold...
...happenstance that gave Indiana its unacademic professor was drug-manufacturing Millionaire Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr.'s decision to give his huge rare-book collection-20,000 first editions, thousands of manuscripts-to the university (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956). The single gift made Indiana an important rare-book center, and the school needed a curator. Lilly recommended Randall, whose 20 years as head of Scribner's rare-book department had made him one of the U.S.'s most knowledgeable authorities-and fastest-moving speculators-in an intense, inbred field. The dealer was hired, and with the backing...