Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really out of it once...
Canada's ordinarily bland and imperturbable radio and TV network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reeled along last week, leaderless and groggy from cumulative misfortune. For 22 years almost nothing happened at the CBC; suddenly, strikes, temperament and scandal popped up all over...
EWEX KNIGHT CORP. grew out of the Harvard doctoral thesis of Harold Ewen. Working with Harvard's Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Edward Purcell (in '52, for nuclear magnetic measurement), Ewen developed and built equipment to locate and trace hydrogen clouds several hundred thousand light years distant from earth. This resulted in no less than a remapping of the solar system. With a fellow scientist's $1,000 and his own theories, Ewen started his company in 1952. turned out radiometers (receiving systems for radio telescopes), radio sextants, microwave components. Last year Ewen Knight chalked...
HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING CORP. sprang from wartime research by M.I.T. Physicist Robert Van de Graaff. M.I.T. Engineer John Trump and British Engineer Denis M. Robinson. They started manufacturing Buck Rogers gear in a dreary Cambridge garage, moved to Route 128 in 1956. High Voltage now builds giant (three stories high) particle accelerators that can sterilize materials by firing a stream of electrons through them. The accelerators are also used for high-energy physics studies and for breaking down chromosomes to study their properties, may soon be used commercially to irradiate food so that it will keep for years without refrigeration...
...ITEK CORP. started when its president, a wartime aerial-reconnaissance expert named Richard Leghorn (M.I.T. '39), borrowed $142,000 from Laurance Rockefeller to buy two science-heavy organizations after the defense-spending cutback hit research in 1957. With these two-Physical Research Laboratories of Boston University and cash-shy Vectron. Inc. (electronics )-Itek began with a well-shaped organization (more than 100 scientists) that would have taken years to build. Though most of its work is classified, and identified only as "graphic retrieval,'' its stock soared from about $1.60 to $60 in a year, counting splits. Among...