Word: piercee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The scene was tense, the room hushed. At a barren table in the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., Dr. John Robinson Pierce gulped coffee and nibbled nervously on a doughnut. A loudspeaker clicked on, long enough for a brief, metallic announcement: "Trinidad still tracking." Fidgeting, Pierce waited in the...
Hardest & Sweetest. The road has been hardest and success sweetest for Bell Telephone's wispy (125 Ibs.) Dr. Pierce. At California Institute of Technology, Pierce. 50, studied chemical engineering, switched to aeronautics and then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written...
Pierce proposed the construction of communications satellites back in 1955, two years before Russia launched Sputnik. He found no takers. Then, when he learned three years later that NASA was experimenting with large, inflatable satellites-but to test air resistance, not space communications-Pierce took his case in person to...
"Perhaps he could carry on the party policies-the policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln...
That is not all they did, as a walk from Copley Square to the docks will show you. The Museum of Natural History has become Bonwit Teller, and the S.S. Pierce Building at Copley is now a parking lot, but Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, and the granite warehouses of North...