Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corner Satellite. A more ambitious NACA satellite is made of the same aluminized film and weighs only 8.7 lbs. When inflated by a ½-lb. bottle of gas, it erects into a "corner reflector" 12 ft. in diameter...
...Corner reflectors are peculiar shapes made of two or three mutually intersecting surfaces of electrically conducting material. They re: ect radio or radar waves with extraordinary efficiency; small ones stand out on a radarscope as if they were heavy bombers. The NACA plan is to put one of these large but almost immaterial objects on an orbit so high that residual air will not slow it appreciably. At twilight it will look as bright as the North Star, and radars pointed at it will show it plainly. They can follow it on its course and measure its distance and direction...
...shot away from the earth at escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.), a cheap 8.7-lb. corner reflector can be followed far into space. It can be watched by radar, says the NACA, as it circles the moon and heads back to earth. Its behavior will check the calculations of astronavigators and explore the spaceways for vehicles of the future, carrying instruments...
...sponsored so many TV boxing matches that its name has practically become synonymous with fighting. Last week Pabst reluctantly sponsored one more fight-the first proxy fight in its 94-year history. The ring was a igth-floor hall in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. In one corner was short, pudgy Pabst President and Chairman Harris Perlstein, wearing grey suit, tan shoes and grey tie. In the other, the challengers: Robert and David Pabst, the grandsons of the Pabst founder, Fred Pabst, and Otto and Carl Spaeth, son and grandson respectively of the founder of Premier Malt, which bought...
...band of about 12 thugs attacked three Freshmen and three Bostonians late Saturday night on the corner of Columbus Ave. and 4th St. Of the six assailed, however, only one, an unidentified man, was injured. The others were picked up by four Freshmen who drove by in a station wagon...