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...help smooth out the bigger economic bumps, McNamara ordered a study of the factors that account for the heavy concentration of Pentagon research and development contracts in a few university-rich areas-such as the Boston region, drawing upon Harvard and M.I.T., and the Southern California complex, centering around Caltech and U.C.L.A. Assigned to the Stanford Research Institute, the study is potentially important not only because R. & D. is a big business in itself, but also because the area that gets the R. & D. contract often gets the production contract too. By analyzing the distribution of R. & D., the Pentagon...
...Shift. Then Drs. Jesse L. Greenstein of Caltech and Maarten Schmidt of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories decided to test a novel theory. When any object is moving away from the earth at a speed that is close to the speed of light, its light waves appear to slow down in frequency. Bright bands of the spectrum that are normally blue show up as yellow. Yellow bands become red. Stars have never been known to move fast enough to show such large light shifts, so Drs. Greenstein and Schmidt studied the strange spectra just as if they came from another...
...that December day, though, the morning star held a special attraction for the men of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Almost as if they could see it all happening, they squinted into 36 million miles of space, out into the vicinity of Venus, where for the first time in history a man-made space traveler was cruising into range. A gold and gleaming machine, sporting angular purple wings and unblinking electronic eyes, was swooping toward its target. Mariner II was giving earthbound scientists their first close look at the distant planet that has tugged so long at their adventurous...
Pickering's progress was smooth and steady. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
After putting grasshopper-light radio equipment on high-flying cosmic-ray sounding balloons, making rockets tell about their troubles was simple. Says Caltech Aerodynamics Professor Homer Joe Stuart, a JPL pioneer: "It is interesting to think what the Germans could have done with a Pickering. We learned after the war that they conducted 1,700 test flights with V-2 rockets. That number is unbelievable until you remember that they had no telemetry worth the name. Their severe security kept their best electronics people from coordinating with their rocket program...