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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course, etc. into computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: 3,000-Mile Watchdogs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...took 130 of the old School and College Study Examinations and no one received Sophomore Standing, the number of A.P. candidates has quadrupled and the total of exams presented has increased six-fold. According to director Edward T. Wilcox, the program is still growing, and "no ceiling is in sight...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Advanced Placement Program Nears Maturity | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

...Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared to believe that the majestic, awe-inspiring Chief Obodo is "properly dead" until his body is brought home from Enugu and they can test the evidence of touch and sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: A Box for Obodo | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Back home I guess that hardly anyone's ever heard of me," she said. "But out here everyone seems to know all about my times and everything. It's fantastic." Sylvia cuddled koalas, toured amusement parks, visited Dancer Fred Astaire on a movie set, but never lost sight of why she had come: to show swim-conscious Australians what an American girl could do. By the time she returned to California this week, Sylvia had set four world records, was no longer an unknown in her own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Sprite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...desert building too speculative for loans to individual borrowers, they readily lend to Phillips because of his excellent record. Phillips' companies each year build close to 1,000 homes, most in desert areas, in the $8,000-to-$11,000 price range, and there is no end in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: The Desert Song | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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