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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quadros will sail home in September for a hero's welcome at the U.D.N. convention, then change to sloppy clothes and two-day beard and set out to improve his great following among Brazilian workers. Said he: "Marshal Lott is a distinguished patriot, but to become President it is also necessary to be popular." A recent poll in Brazil's 20 state capitals showed 72% for Quadros, 18% for Lott...
Personal Project. Thaler, then 31, did not wait for official encouragement, or even ask for it. Instead, he went ahead on his own. He borrowed radio equipment from a colleague, set it up and trained it in the direction of Nevada, where the AEC was about to fire a series of atom bombs. To his delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None...
...missiles, thermonuclear detonations and the aurora borealis. Last summer, in the line of his regular duty, Thaler directed the Navy's Argus Project, in which atom bombs were exploded 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME, March 30). In Washington, some 7,000 miles away, a Project Tepee set picked up the shots. The same set had also successfully registered the Teak and Kettle high-altitude thermonuclear explosions over Johnston Island in the Pacific. As Tepee grew, its operators learned to track missiles with such discrimination that they could distinguish the successes from the failures...
Wrinkles Ahead. Navy enthusiasts point out that Tepee stations are low-powered and relatively cheap, talk of a system of six stations that would monitor any rocket the Russians set off or atomic bomb that they tested above ground. Thaler himself makes no such claims, recognizes that there are still plenty of wrinkles. "We know the theory and the equipment works.'' said Thaler last week, "and our experiments have been successful from the beginning, but we will have to learn a lot more before we will be able to say we have a system. We have been trying...
When the tried and true blue-water racers of the New York Yacht Club set out fortnight ago for their annual series of races off the New England coast, a lean, shy sailor out of Marblehead, Mass, tagged along with his new sloop to see what she could do. Last week the fleet was marveling at the record of the 40-ft., plump-breasted Robin and young (32) Designer-Owner Frederick Emart Hood: four wins in seven races and an overall first-season record of eight wins in twelve races...