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Lightest Peeper. The Dage Television Division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. has developed for military use the lightest portable television camera-transmitter yet offered for sale, the Tele-Tran. Weighing only 4 lbs. for the camera, plus twelve for a backpack transmitter, the assembly sends pictures to half a mile. Price...
...guarded reserve that they had built up over months of missile woes, were all but hysterical with joy. When Cape Canaveral's pencil-mustached Major General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured out their delight in hourly pronouncements on Pioneer's progress...
...Funds. Stocky, handsome Tex Thornton, who was born in Knox County, Texas and graduated from Texas Technological College ('37), got a backhanded boost toward success from eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes. Thornton quit Hughes Aircraft in the same big blowup of Hughesmen (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953) that sent Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge off to start their own famed Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. With Thornton went Roy L. Ash, Hughes Aircraft's assistant controller and now Litton...
Ground controllers at the Space Technology Laboratory of Thompson Ramo Woolridge Corp. in Inglewood, Calif, will study the flight closely. At the proper instant, an Air Force tracking station in Honolulu will trigger the probe's own rocket, guiding it so that the moon sweeps it in. Then the probe can make a lazy, 50-hour pass around the moon, performing such chores as sending an electric-eye view of the moon's unseen face. Theoretically, the moon could sling the vehicle back to earth in a figure-eight-shaped voyage (TIME, June...
...Simon Ramo, 44, executive vice president and secretary of Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., fast-growing Los Angeles electronics firm, gave up his post to become president of a new Ramo-Wooldridge division, the Space Technology Laboratories. The new Space division replaces Ramo-Wooldridge's Guided Missile Research Division, which is technical manager to the Air Force's ballistic-missile program, is designed to call attention to Ramo-Wooldridge's other divisions and functions by broadening its role to include non-Air Force work...