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Largely supporting itself by making and hand-testing military radar antennas, struggling Scientific-Atlanta got a Signal Corps order in 1954 to develop a new plastic lens antenna. It needed a recorder to test the patterns of the more sophisticated antenna, but the cheapest recorder cost $10,000-just about the company's net worth at the time. Robinson rounded up consultants from Georgia Tech, worked day and night for five months, finally developed a homemade recorder that was more accurate and could be sold more cheaply than those on the market. The recorder converts radio signals passing through...
...think the butler did it?" one faculty member was quoted as saying after hearing the first installment of Snow's narrative about a conflict between two English scientists over the development of radar...
...empire-building yen for them. They included a nuclear-powered aircraft, killed in 1961 after 15 years' work and the expenditure of a billion dollars; a jet-powered flying boat on which $450 million was spent; the Goose decoy missile, a pilotless aircraft to fool enemy radar, canceled after $80 million in costs because the contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that were so similar in purpose that a congressional committee...
...Buffalo, it runs a $15 million-a-year aeronautical research lab. In Manhattan, it boasts one of the top medical colleges in the country. From India to Peru, it counts 1,500 aid and research projects, including the world's largest radar (for ionosphere study), abuilding in Puerto Rico. Scholarly names dot the faculty of 1,650-Physicist Hans Bethe, Astronomer Thomas Gold, Critic Arthur Mizener, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature in Ithaca while writing Lolita...
...first class, 560 cabin, 700 tourist) in roomy cabins, have 30 salons and six swimming pools, closed-circuit TV, overall air conditioning and 18 elevators to serve eleven decks. (Still highly sensitive to the Andrea Doria disaster, the line has also installed extra watertight compartments and two modern radar systems.) The new ships' motto is ''Living like a lord." For passengers who find it hard to relax even amid such luxury, the Italian Line will offer special therapeutic treatments designed to calm nerves...