Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 15 minutes and 1.500 miles after the Jupiter soared into the sky, its nose cone plunged into the Atlantic off the West Indian island of Martinique. The cone had been fitted up with devices-automatically inflated float, flashing light, beeping radio transmitter, etc.-that had enabled Navy-Army task forces to find and recover three earlier Jupiter nose cones. But this time, somehow, the apparatus failed to work. After searching for six hours, the task force gave up, and the Army announced that Little Old Reliable was missing in action and presumed dead. But after his electronic fashion...
...terse little paragraph on the back page of Pravda disclosed last week that "Army General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov has been released from his duties as chairman of the State Security Committee in connection with his transfer to other duties." The announcement, which was not even repeated on the Soviet radio, was as brusque as it was brief. Just as in the case of the disgraced war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, it failed to say what the general's new duties would be-and Zhukov has yet to turn up in another post...
...future there will be "no restrictions as to sex," Shenefield said. In a three hour meeting the administrative staff of WHRB approved by a two-thirds majority an amendment to the by-laws of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co. Inc., which would provide "voting rights and eligibility for executive positions on equal terms for Harvard and Radcliffe members...
...Washer & Maxwell. Revell got into models in 1947, when President Glaser, who had tried his hand at radio repair work and plastics fabrication, decided to make a "detailed and authentic" plastic toy washing machine. It sold well, but his first big hit did not come until 1950, when Glaser put out a copy of the old Maxwell auto, made famous by Comedian Jack Benny, sold 800,000. Glaser added the battleship Missouri (still the most successful, with 2,040,000 kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp...
After giving out most of their papers to a news hungry audience the editors were interviewed on NBC's weekend radio show, Monitor, and on a local television newscast from NBC's New York outlet, WRCA. Crimeds also left papers at the New York Harvard and Yale clubs, but were not invited to lunch by either organization...