Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Project. Thaler, then 31, did not wait for official encouragement, or even ask for it. Instead, he went ahead on his own. He borrowed radio equipment from a colleague, set it up and trained it in the direction of Nevada, where the AEC was about to fire a series of atom bombs. To his delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None...
These plastic mannequins appear to be of the same "family" that participated in the Nevada atomic bomb tests...
Homework. In Reno, four instructors of a Stead A.F.B. survival training course called "sneaking and peeking" were caught sneaking and peeking late at night at a University of Nevada woman's dormitory...
Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 27, cinemactress; and Eddie Fisher, 30, crooner (3½ hours after he got a Nevada divorce from Cinemactress Debbie Reynolds); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Died. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, president of the Fuller Brush Co., son of the founder (who is now chairman of the board); in an auto accident that also killed his wife; near Hawthorne, Nevada. At 30, Fuller took command of the company's 108 branches and 6,500 dealers, introduced the Fuller Brush Woman to sell soaps and cosmetics...