Satellite Control Center in California Heralds Space Age
Mountain View will host the first world wide satellite monitoring center costing 25 million dollars. The Development Control Center will track satellite orbits, relay messages to Vandenberg, and coordinate five global tracking stations with advanced computers.
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California
Central Press Association
Mountain View
Calif
Vandenberg Air Force Base
San Francisco
Air Rescue Service
U.S
United States
DCC
Museum Stages Dances at Louisiana Museum Denmark
In Humlebaek Denmark the Louisiana Museum blends art with dining and liquor. Owner Knud Jensen funds culture from a cheese fortune and invites relaxed visits with jazz concerts, dancing, and smoking allowed in a museum setting across six modern galleries.
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Denmark
Knud W. Jensen
Jensen
Fyn
Hans Christian Andersen
Copenhagen
School of Beaux Arts
Hamiet
Hamlebaek
Sweden
Louise
Louisiana
Louisiana Museum
Birth Certificate Of World’s Atomic Age Preserved
The article recalls John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry execution and contrasts it with the Atomic Age birth certificate kept at Argonne National Laboratory. It details the 1942 Chicago Pile No. 1 start up record, preservation errors, and a careful restoration to protect the original graph showing neutron intensity and criticality for posterity.
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Charlestown
W. Va
John Brown
Harpers Ferry
Brown
Providence
Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
Enrico Fermi
Chicago South Side
Stagg Field
Reacor
Norman Hilberry
Steam Engines Don’t Die and the Railroads Give Away Locomotives
A central press overview traces how steam locomotives exit service and become city park memorials. Union Pacific donated eight engines in 1955 to communities like Riverside California, though buyers would fetch about 50 thousand dollars in scrap. The program grew to multiple donations yearly, with tracks laid to place engines in parks, totaling an estimated 200 thousand dollars in scrap value. The practice waned as engines exhausted, leaving towns to cherish a romantic era of railroading via public displays.
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John F. Sembower
U. S. Air Force
Space Communications Division
Radiation, Inc
Lockheed Missile and Space Division
Mary Cecilia
Bernard Ward
Kevin
Brendan
Terence
Bernard
Philip
By John DE Lorenzi
The
Athens Messenger
Central Press
Virginia
Jonn Wilkes Booth
Richmond
Kentucky
Col J. T. L Preston
Union
Harper's Ferry
Day
U. S. Army
Manhattan
Atomic Matters
Basier
Shev
U. P
Riverside
Union Pacific
Cheyenne, Wyo
Pyramid Lake
Nevada
Les Staudacher
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