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Weld playing the top position for the first time this year, came from behind to beat Cuban Davis Cupper Raul Karman, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Karman, whose beautiful crosscourt backhand returns gave Weld a lot of trouble in the opening games, let up just a bit after winning the first set, and that was all the Crimson captain needed. The Tech star was unable to regain his touch, while Weld, who had started slowly grew stronger and stronger. In the final set, he broke Karman's service at love in the sixth game to lead...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Varsity Defeats M.I.T., 9-0; Weld Conquers Favored Engineer | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

Weld and Bowditch spotted Karman and Klapper a set in the first doubles match and then bounced back to win, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Barnaby rested his second and third doubles teams of Gallwey-Vinton and Lemann-Wood. Laurie Pratt and Jim Cameron, playing number two, came through to beat Winicour and Kennefich, 7-9, 6-1, 6-3, and Scott Custer and Langden Smith, playing third, wrapped up the shutout by taking Hodges and Dave Aker...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Varsity Defeats M.I.T., 9-0; Weld Conquers Favored Engineer | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

Hungarian-born Theodore von Karman, chief of NATO's AGARD in Paris, insists that in atomic and missile research the Germans were used only on a low technical level, points out that almost all have long since been sent home. "The Russians,'' says President Andrew G. Haley of the International Astronautical Federation, "didn't get as much from the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Brahmins of Redland | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Freshman team won 7 to 2, but M.I.T. showed indications of a powerful varsity to come, as its number one player, Cuban Davis Cup star Raul Karman, defeated Bob Bowditch...

Author: By Leo A. Guthart, | Title: Crimson Netmen Vanquish M.I.T. | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

...Pickering took his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a doctorate in physics. During World War II he headed up the Army's investigation of Japanese incendiary balloon attacks on the West Coast. After World War II he studied guided-missile work with Caltech Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman in Germany and Japan, decided that German work had been overestimated, Japanese work underestimated. Now at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pickering directs about 2,000 highly skilled men and women, controls a budget of some $25 million (most of it from the Army), has only one reservation about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUPITER PEOPLE: They Shine in a Rocket's Bright Glare | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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