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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WALLACE CEDARLEAF Minister Chaffin Congregational Church Holden, Mass...
That pudgy face bears an uncanny similarity to another political tyrant who would supposingly benefit the great mass of people -Nikita Khrushchev...
...Inertial Guidance-the gyroscopic navigational system that guided the B-29 without visual or electronic aid from earth or stars-has been an obvious choice to control the U.S.'s ultimate earth-to-earth weapon: the pilotless intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). Last week in Cambridge. Mass., a pudgy, square-faced engineer who presides over an aging red brick factory building (still labeled "Home of Whittemore Shoe Polishes," but listed on Massachusetts Institute of Technology records as the Instrumentation Laboratory) outlined the details of Inertial Guidance, just declassified...
...Inertial Guidance system that guided the 1953 flight with nearly pinpoint accuracy weighed a hefty 2,700 Ibs., got the tag "navigation in a closet." To be effective in a missile where each pound of excessive weight exacts a heavy toll in lost speed and distance, the mass of wires, tubes and gyros would have to be slimmed down from closet to pocket size. Advances in accuracy and miniaturization since the first flight are classified, but the M.I.T. scientists, who have been working on Inertial Guidance since 1939, serve as consultants to the Air Force and Navy on such systems...
Leet, who spent yesterday at the University's Seismological Center in Harvard, Mass., said that he was "having a friendly argument" with seismologists at the Weston Observatory as to just where the quake's center was. Leet's calculation placed it in the Ossippee mountains of New Hampshire, while the Weston Center put it out at sea just east of Yarmouth, Maine...