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Prodigious Appetite. The most important items in Courier iB are five tape recorders, one of them handling voice and the other four (some are standbys) recording and transmitting high-speed Teletype messages. Soon after the satellite went into orbit, it recorded a taped message from President Eisenhower that was sent up to it while it was passing over the Army's communications laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. When Courier iB approached Puerto Rico, a Signal Corps radio at Salinas commanded it to repeat the President's words. This it duly did, and the message was forwarded by conventional...
...Explorer I, using "a thermometer and stethoscope, since it measures temperature and cosmic rays"; a buxom flapper of a Pioneer V, absorbing a last swift kick from its booster rocket; an Explorer VII counting cosmic rays with a Geiger counter; and a loudmouthed, loudspeaker-toting Transit iB, sending back navigational signals. All of the other satellites shown on the cover have, in Artzy's unique style, a combination of in-detail realism and way-out imagination...
...Parke, Davis & Co. invested $100,000 in a Brit ish edition of Antibiotic Medicine and Clinical Therapy, and when it failed, there was $37,945 left in the kitty-which Welch split with the publisher and principal owner of MD Publications, Spanish-born Dr. Félix Marti-Ib...
Along the way, Welch and Partner Marti-Ibáñez formed Medical Encyclopedia Inc., with themselves and their wives as sole owners. They made a go of it, with a liberal assist from the U.S. Each year for five years, the Antibiotics Division helped sponsor a symposium on antibiotics. The technical reports presented, often by experts from Government lab oratories and great universities, were published in an Antibiotics Annual for the profit of Medical Encyclopedia Inc. That netted Welch an extra...
...first inning, the 6-ft. 4-in., 210-Ib. righthander walked the St, Louis Cardinals' Alex Grammas with one out. After that, Chicago Cub Pitcher Don Cardwell, 24, acquired by trade just two days before from the Philadelphia Phillies, retired the next 26 men in a row for a 4-0 victory and the first no-hitter of the 1960 major league season...