Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest scientific instrument, and probably its biggest precision mechanism, is the giant radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. Demonstrated to the press last week, it is almost finished and will go into action this summer, reaching into the depths of the universe for faint whispers of radio information...
...fairs in Western Europe and the Americas. Then the Government can concentrate its tightly budgeted official displays in the most vital cold war arenas-the emergent countries of Asia, Africa and the Communist world. Says Commerce Department Trade Fair Boss Harrison T. McClung: "Private industry itself is the instrument that can most effectively tell the story of free enterprise...
Guided by Colonel John P. Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), boss of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...
Some Syrians, long unhappy with their country's role as instrument of Soviet policy in the Middle East, acted. At week's end 35 Shaabist Deputies resigned from Syria's 132-man Parliament, and 25 sympathizers were expected to follow. The middle-class Shaab (People's) Party comes closer than any other important group in the country to being pro-Western, even though its campaign propaganda talks as loudly about "positive neutrality" as anyone else. The resignations may bring on a general election, but there is no evidence that in such an election, the ruling clique...
...next three years, will extend its radio and radar control to all airspace above 15,000 ft. by 1962. Such a program should go a long way toward reducing the hazards of the air. Of the 144 mid-air collisions since 1948, only two occurred under instrument flying controlled from the ground. All the rest happened under visual flight rules...