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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telecopier" represented three years of planning and experimentation. The 2,000-lb. weight of a standard camera and transmitter would require a helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking...
...satellite batting average to .750; only Explorer II was a dud. The launching vehicle was the old reliable Jupiter-C-a Redstone rocket as the first stage, topped with assemblies of small solid-propellant rockets. The propellant in the third and fourth stages had more punch, permitting the weight of the final satellite to be raised to 38.43 lbs., a gain...
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 33, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned television star (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Robert Schuler, 42, TV producer: their second son, third child; prematurely, in Formentor, Majorca, Spain. Name: Scott Carlos. Weight...
...Carrying crushing top weight of 134 Ibs. and giving away up to 32 Ibs., Bold Ruler breezed to an easy victory over a lackluster field in Monmouth Park's $110,650 Monmouth Handicap...
...Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 31, TV and cinemactress, and Mortimer Hall, 34, son of New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff and president of Los Angeles radio station KLAC: their first child, a son (he has another son by Cinemactress Ruth Roman); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Matthew Wells. Weight...