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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compact Eye. The extremely sensitive radar that can distinguish closely adjacent targets, e.g., boats in an amphibious landing is now cumbersome and complex. Last week Sylvania Electric Products Inc disclosed a new cathode-ray tube that will cut the size of present radar receiving units by about four-fifths. Developed with the Navy, the "wamoscope" (a derivative of wave-modulated oscilloscope) uses a single tube to detect, amplify and display target blips, eliminating a dozen tubes and components, including such standard terns as detectors and amplifiers. All three armed forces are excited about the wammy. Said Dr. Robert Guthrie, Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Wrinkles | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...convinced that they could not get a flat endorsement from Adlai, had been trying for three days to persuade Stevenson to throw the nomination wide open. Stevenson finally gave in to their main argument: that the Democrats might be able to stir up more trouble for their favorite campaign target, Vice President Nixon, by inviting a sudden-death competition in their own ranks. Immediately after the convention nominated him, Stevenson went to a two-room suite (decorated with prints of American birds, e.g., the black-billed cuckoo and the boat-tailed grackle) in the Stock Yard Inn, next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wide-Open Winner | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Individualists | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...scenes of labor and industry were followed by a sobering reel of views of Hiroshima, which was the target of the dropping of the first atom bomb 11 years ago next week. Some shots of pre-war Hiroshima preceded scenes of the ruins and rubble left by the single explosion that killed or injured half a million people...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Slides of Japan Today Presented By International Seminar Forum | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

FORD CONTINENTAL SALES have eased to point where operations will be consolidated with Lincoln Division. Though Continental aims to hit 2,500-car target this year, company has decided to cut costs by combining all nonmanufacturing operations with Lincoln, and give Continental Boss William C. Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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