Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William H. Pickering, 47, sandy-haired, New Zealand-born director of the Government-owned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor...
...President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into Kansas City. On the way a motorcycle escort kicked up such noise that an unidentified excitable citizen called a radio station, which soon broadcast that Nebraska Teen-Age Murderer Charles Starkweather (see Crime) was hightailing through town ahead of the cops...
...right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when...
...Bill got a letter from one of his father's friends: How would he like to take advantage of his size and go to work at a race track? Because it seemed as good a way as any to get away from home, Bill boarded a bus for Charles Town, West Va. and a job as exercise...
...luck that saved Bill from the steel mills still held when he got to Charles Town. He was hired by Norman ("Junie") Corbin. a shrewd trainer, a wise and patient teacher, and probably the ideal man to bring Bill along. Hawkfaced Junie Corbin needed an exercise boy to work horses, muck out the stables and clean tack, and Bill was glad...