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...minerals beneath the surface of the earth, prospectors and scientists have used everything from divining rods to sophisticated seismic devices. But more often than not, they have had to fall back on costly and time-consuming drilling to probe the earth's secrets. Now, New Mexico's Sandia Corp. has developed new tools for preliminary subsurface exploration that may do in minutes or hours what now takes days and even months to accomplish. The new devices: high-speed, instrumented projectiles dropped from aircraft or propelled by rockets...
...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...
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...