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Instrument packages from high-flying rockets are sometimes dropped by parachute, and to keep them from drifting out of reach, Sandia Corp. is developing a homing parachute controlled by a small radio. When the radio locates the proper impact area, air is automatically spilled from the proper segment of the parachute to make it slant toward a convenient landing...
Scientists at the Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, where nuclear weapons are designed and assembled, have a passion for cleanliness. They have to. As weapons components are made smaller and still smaller, the presence of a single particle of dust can make larger and still larger trouble. The strictest housekeeper in all Sandia is Texas-born Physicist Willis J. Whitfield, creator of the Whitfield Ultra-Clean Room. "I thought about dust particles," he says with a slight drawl. "Where are these rascals generated? Where do they go?" Once he answered his own questions Physicist Whitfield decided that conventional industrial clean rooms...
...separate spy rings, and Beria in exchange permitted their families-some 15 persons in all-to emigrate with them. Dr. Soblen, the Government charges, procured secret documents of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, information about an "atomic-bomb project on the Northwest Coast," photographs of the Sandia nuclear-weapons development center at Albuquerque-and arranged to deliver it all to the Soviets. Along the way, Soblen made contact with Hollywood Producer and U.S. Counterspy Boris Morros, who presumably contributed evidence to the case against Soblen (as, apparently, did Brother Jack, who got off with a relatively light...
...Sandia Corp., he supervised Atomic Energy Commission special-weapons development. In 1953 Quarles was named Assistant Defense Secretary for Research and Development, took charge of U.S. missile and satellite planning, gained Pentagon renown for late-night desk work and a penchant for drinking cups of plain hot water. In 1955 he became Air Force Secretary. Two years later he moved up to Deputy Defense Secretary, became Charles E. Wilson's closest adviser...
...Sandia Base...