Word: sandia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chipman Fletcher, 78, "Mother of the Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City...
...MYERS Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.A. Sandia Base...
...Referring to your inaccurate article "How They Found the Bomb" [May 13], this should set the record straight. With due credit to Sandia for its highly professional efforts and to the Spanish witnesses ashore, had we adhered to their imprecise estimates, the location of the bomb would have been delayed at least a month and more likely several months. The hundreds of bits of information and suggestions received from people in the U.S. and Europe were appreciated and evaluated carefully. But the plaudits for this highly successful operation properly belong to the patriotic civilian and military personnel...
Back at their computers, other scientists of Sandia determined that the radioactive contamination of Spanish soil had been caused entirely by the two recovered bombs that had broken apart on impact. Had another bomb shattered on land, the level of radio activity would have been higher. Thus the scientists assumed that either the missing bomb had not broken apart on hitting land, or it had fallen into the sea. Further ballistics analysis and wind data enabled the Sandia computers eventually to plot the probable trajectory of the missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended...
Precarious Perch. Late in February, when the final information from Palo mares had been processed by the computers, Sandia scientists traced a square on a Spanish coastal chart and said, "Tell Alvin (the deep-diving research submarine that eventually found the bomb) to look here." Three weeks later, when the little sub finally located the missing bomb-2,500 feet below the surface, still shrouded in its parachute and perched precariously on a 70° slope-it was 1,200 yards from the final coordinates calculated in a laboratory over 5,000 miles away...