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...Agassiz telescope will still not be the world's largest; the Dutch are erecting a 75-foot one and the English a 250 footer. The latter will be used at lower frequencies, however, and might transmit pulse to mars...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Observatory Builds Radio Telescope To Probe Structure of Galaxy | 11/13/1952 | See Source »

...Pettiford, a six footer from McKoosport, Penn, and 218 pound Pete give the coach's pair of big and potentially smart ends...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

Tonic & Lotion. Breakfast done, the three fugitives took baths and shaved, helping themselves to Hill's hair tonic and shaving lotion. Then they helped themselves to Hill's suits. When Joseph discovered that six-footer Hill's suits didn't fit, he sat down at an old treadle sewing machine and carefully altered the trousers and sleeves. The thread broke repeatedly, and Mrs. Hill kept rethreading the needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: House Party | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente's most frequent injunction to underlings is "Give 'em action! No monkeying around . . ." That was the kind of language the directors liked; they called him back as president from semiretirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Man of Action | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Reichel-Dolmatoff, a six-footer with a blond mustache, is justifiably proud of having gained the Kogis' confidence in four years of close association. Last week, after reporting to the foundation, he hurried back to the Santa Marta Mountains for further study and picture-taking among his short, black-eyed friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Man's World | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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