Word: karman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like other famed rocket labs, e.g., Germany's Peenemünde, J.P.L. was founded by eager amateurs. In the middle 1930s, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman encouraged a group of Caltech students to design high-altitude sounding rockets. For a while they had no money except what they could spare from their own pockets, but in 1937 a meteorology student named Weld Arnold offered to raise $1,000. Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank...
Captain Ned Weld, playing at number one, scored outstanding victories over M.I.T.'s Raul Karman and Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn. Weld turned in an amazing job for someone who never played higher than number three on his freshman team...
...victory. Particularly impressive were his wins over Tom Richardson of Amherst and Tom Freiberg of Yale; both men are experienced seniors and former finalists in this tournament. In the final, Bowditch beat unseeded Clyde Buck of Williams, who had earlier upset Weld and Raul Karman of M.I.T. Weld, Vinton and Wood all reached the round of sixteen before bowing...
Captain Ned Weld, playing first singles, led off the rout when he took less then a half hour to dispose of Cadet lefthander Hank Fisher, 6-2, 6-0. Weld started fairly slowly, as he had against M.I.T.'s Raul Karman last Wednesday, allowing Fisher's errors to give him the opening games. But in the second set the Crimson captain was very sharp, and, with his service clicking beautifully, he ran through Fisher in short order...
Captain Ned Weld, fresh from a fine victory over M.I.T.'s Raul Karman, will again be at first singles, with Bob Bowditch, Tim Galwey, Fred Vinton, Jorge Lemann, and Bill Wood completing the singles alignment. Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith, and Scott Custer will play additional matches not included in the official scoring...