Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With some official encouragement-a government grant of 1,200 rupees a month, plus daily transcripts of Radio Pakistan news-seven of Quetta's publishers agreed to try. Soon they were producing Quetta's first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound...
...rebuilding. In ten years of bush flying, he has become an old hand at perilous uphill landings and downhill takeoffs, slalom-like runs to avoid wild pigs on the runways, hedgehopping to stay under hanging clouds. Once one of the mission's three pilots was heard on the radio talking to a control tower: "I'm running into clouds; I don't think I'll make it," followed by Arkfeld's booming voice: "I'm right behind you. You'll make it." Both he and his pilots always have...
...Combat Surveillance Radar AN/TPS-25 (called Tipsy 25 by the G.I.s) is easily mobile, depends on the Doppler effect, which detects slight movements toward or away from the instrument because of the change in frequency of radio waves reflected from moving objects. When set up on the front line, Tipsy 25 is trained toward the direction of probable enemy approach. It covers an angle of about 30°, and if anything is moving there, the operator hears a crackling sound like radio static. He then narrows his beam and focuses on the suspected object. When he pinpoints it. he hears...
...specialize on observing cosmic rays by means of high-altitude plastic balloons. Last May 10 they heard from astronomers that an unusually powerful flare had erupted on the sun. As they readied their great balloons, a telephone call came from Alaska; Astrophysicist Harold Leinbach was reporting that his radio telescope at College (near Fairbanks) had detected a sudden blackout of radio noise from space. This indicated, said Leinbach, that a great swarm of particles from the sun was hitting the atmosphere...
Died. Dr. Russell Harrison Varian, 61, inventor (1937) with his brother Sigurd of the klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska...