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...from Freed's exit, the liveliest deejay purge occurred in Detroit, where President George B. Storer undertook a radical housecleaning of his Storer Broadcasting Co. (five TV and seven radio stations in nine cities). Three deejays at Detroit's WJBK bit the dust, as did one Joe Niagara in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, ABC's affiliate WXYZ chopped down still another in Detroit. Of the fallen, Detroit's Tom Clay was the first to tell his story in detail-and a fascinating, lurid story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: Now Don't Cry | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...children had to be outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen discovered that the Goddess of Freedom on top of the dome was coming apart at the seams, and a bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Curtain Going Up | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...military aircraft in what may well be the start of a new cutback in aircraft and missile programs. The Air Force announced that it was abandoning plans to produce high-energy boron aircraft fuels at Olin Mathieson Corp.'s two-city-block, $45 million plant near Niagara Falls, which was scheduled to deliver its first batch of exotic fuel this month. It also canceled a contract with the General Electric Co. for producing the J-93-5 engine to power North American Aviation's "chemical" B70 bomber with a combination of exotic and conventional fuels. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Cutback Casualties | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

From Albany west to Corning, thence on to Niagara Falls, then the length of the state to Manhattan-630 airway miles in all-whizzed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week, shaking hands, slapping backs, issuing a tireless stream of enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Ready for Running | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

What mesmerized Asahi Science readers-and in three days sold out an extra-run issue of 100,000-was an ingenious application, by Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Yasushi Hoshino, of an old sound-recording technique. Niagara's roar was magnetically and invisibly etched in the insert page's brown ink, exactly as sound tracks are laid on magnetic tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Audible Ink | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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