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Sophomore Watt Tyler defeated Tech 5-4 and Williams one up in 19 holes. He had a birdie three on the extra hole and 79 for the course. Brad Snow took losses from both M.I.T. and Williams, 6-4 and one up. Playing in the last position, Bob David fired a 75 over the tricky Oakley layout, defeating M.I.T. 6-4, and Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Beats M.I.T., Williams | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

After a single forlorn year as a white "good-music" station, WDIA began beaming its voice at 1,230,000 Negroes who live within the 50,000-watt range from Cairo, Ill. to Jackson, Miss. It was soon heeded not only in homes and cars but in the fields, where cotton pickers still take portable radios to pick up the disk-jockey ramblings of Theo ("Bless My Bones") Wade and such musical shows as Tan Town Coffee Club, Wheelin' on Beale and Hallelujah Jubilee. Despite the jazzy titles, WDIA favors spirituals over romp-and-stomp music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Biggest Negro Station | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...this type of understanding of a country's customs and people, rather than a superficial tourist's view, that Donald B. Watt had in mind 26 years ago when he made plans for the first Experiment group to go to Switzerland. That first Experiment, in 1932, took a group of American boys to a camp with German and Belgian youths...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Harvard's 'Experimenters' Taken into Foreign Homes | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...rotates inside it, so successive trips carry the sputnik over different territory. General Anatoly Arkadievich Blagonravov, head of a three-man Russian delegation to last week's satellite convention in Washington, says that it has four radio antennae and that the power of the radio signal is one watt (enough for a U.S. radio ham to talk with Australia). He estimates that the satellite's batteries will keep its transmitter beeping for about three weeks. There was nothing on board this first sputnik, said Blagonravov except the batteries and transmitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Sputnik | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Through a new control room, cables, and a microwave link installed atop Memorial Hall tower, TV programs can now originate from Sanders. New lighting equipment consisting of eight 1,000-watt and twelve 2,000-watt units provide "a considerable increase in intensity," according to Henry Muller, deputy Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Lights Installed In Sanders Theatre | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

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