Word: pioneers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miss Gish is most frequently remembered for her performance in Orphans of the Storm, made in 1921 in Mamaroneck, New York. This sentimental epic of the French Revolution was one of the last independent productions of David Wark Griffith, inventor of the "spectacular" and a pioneer of film direction in America. The actress recalls one scene that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched...
After putting grasshopper-light radio equipment on high-flying cosmic-ray sounding balloons, making rockets tell about their troubles was simple. Says Caltech Aerodynamics Professor Homer Joe Stuart, a JPL pioneer: "It is interesting to think what the Germans could have done with a Pickering. We learned after the war that they conducted 1,700 test flights with V-2 rockets. That number is unbelievable until you remember that they had no telemetry worth the name. Their severe security kept their best electronics people from coordinating with their rocket program...
Some Went Running. Rather than face further losses, Royal McBee, Underwood and General Mills quit making computers. Former RCA President John Burns lost his job largely because of RCA's huge computer-development costs. Pioneer Remington-Rand, which was merged in 1955 into Sperry-Rand, failed to capitalize on its headstart, and its Univac division is still deeply in the red. In fact, besides IBM, the only company making money on computers is the smallest one-Minneapolis' Control Data (TIME. Nov. 24, 1961). Its formula: concentrating on only a few computers and aiming specifically for the scientific market...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
Died. Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 75, British theoretical physicist, head of the standard-setting National Physical Laboratory from 1938 to 1949, Charles Darwin's grandson, cousin of Pioneer Eugenicist Sir Francis Galton, and an outspoken advocate of eugenics himself; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England...