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...anyone in my position, as many reserves must be, should feel we owe any duty to our country when all around us are men who have never been required to give one day's service to their country. HENRY C. RUPEL ist Lieutenant, Air Force Reserve Lima, Ohio...
...Pickering that first sent the Harvard astronomers south of the border. His assistants were not content with the Rockies, but moved to the Peruvian Andes where they explored the entire country for a suitable post location. Their first station was at Mt. Harvard near Lima at an altitude of 6600 feet. But the station that they finally decided to use was on Arequipa, slightly above 3,000 feet. There they found perfect atmospheric conditions in the long winter nights to take photographs not possible at Cambridge. A telescope increases its power by a factor of five, when operated under these...
...international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American...
...Force also plans to have the Harvey Machine Co. (TIME, Dec. 24) operate two more in California, from United and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. Dow Chemical Co. may also get one for magnesium forgings. The big presses have already proved their worth, even though the present bottleneck in plane production is engines and not air frames. The Wyman-Gordon press has been operating 16 hours a day, and the two German presses are now both...
Collateral. In Lima, Peru, Manuel Meneses admitted that he had his four-year-old son christened 26 times in three years because "each new godfather was good for at least one loan...