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...minute, not long enough to get a response from 8,000,000 miles away. Jodrell sent orders speeding into space. First it told Pioneer V to switch half-power current through the filaments of the 150-watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth, the signal strength from Pioneer V increased twentyfold. The big boy was on the line, calling loud and clear from Pioneer V as the probe...
...April 9 Masters Golf Tournament (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The 24th running of the big payoff to the winter golf tour...
...Payoff. Shifting his summers to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Ewing conducted gravity studies from the submarine Barracuda, designed and built a much-improved camera to picture the ocean bottom. Impressed by the distance that explosion waves travel through sea water, he tried to sell the Navy on using them for communication. But not until seven years later, in 1944, did his system get a trial. Then he proved that waves from a 4-lb. depth charge exploded 4,000 ft. below the ocean's surface can be heard 1,200 miles away. This communication method...
...intelligence," said a kindly bureau spokesman, who added that nearly half the applicants flunk the test. But the fact remained: the man who had taken the networks' quizmasters for more than a quarter of a million had failed when he tried for a lowly 13-buck payoff...
...Post's outfit filed forward for the payoff battle of San Juan Hill, it seemed as if they were being reviewed by a long-legged, black-clad civilian on muleback who sported a red tie and a straw boater. It was William Randolph Hearst, whose yacht lay offshore. "Hey, Willie!" yelled the troops. The deadpan press lord managed only the ghost of a smile, doffed his boater and said mildly, "Boys, good luck be with...