Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction, combines a glimpse into the futuristic marvels of outer space with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951. Like The Thing (TIME, May 14), it is the story of a visitor from another planet. But Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is no villainous monster; he is an ultra-civilized human being who makes the earthmen, by contrast, look like a monstrous race of Yahoos...
...kiss from a Wellesley girl and an ultra-light, three-gear racing bike await the winner...
...still on, but a big spring thaw is on the way. Last week the Federal Communications Commission proposed that the green light be given to TV in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. For the U.S., the FCC proposed to open some 70 channels in the ultra-high-frequency band, permit the building of 2,000 new UHF stations,* 200 of which must be devoted exclusively to educational...
...bomber equipped to use Shoran carries a radio transmitter that sends out short pulses of ultra high frequency (above 300 megacycles) waves. Two ground stations at well-separated points behind friendly lines pick up the airplane's pulses and echo them back greatly amplified. Apparatus on the plane measures the time it took for the pulses to make round trips to each of the stations. This gives a continuous picture of the airplane's distance from the two stations-and therefore its position on the map. The system is accurate enough to show the position of the plane...
Thought & Belief. Nowadays, pretty close to being the recognized No. 1 citizen of Dallas, Umphrey Lee is a busy man. He belongs to such potent organizations as the Citizens' Council, the organization of businessmen without whom nothing can be done in Dallas, and the ultra-select Thirteen Club, a group of 13 who get together periodically to hash over world and local problems. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, Lee has no advice to thrust on those who do. He likes to tell of one friend who drinks deeply and then often calls Lee up to tell him what's wrong with...