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Tepee is the brainchild of young (33) Physicist William John Thaler (pronounced Thayler) of the Office of Naval Research. Thaler's primary field is nuclear weapons effects. But two years ago, he had a sudden notion that certain characteristics of the behavior of radio waves might be the key to a simple and reliable long-range detection system. Since both the ionosphere and the surface of the earth will deflect radio signals, a transmitter can angle its beam upward and the broad waves will carom back and forth between ground and sky as they proceed to circle the earth...
...theology and philosophy) at Loyola College, took .his doctorate at Washington's Catholic University of America, where he specialized in ultrasonics. A solid, 6-ft. 190-pounder and father of four. Thaler is a topnotch tennis player, has several times won the state doubles championship. Thaler took his sudden fame calmly. Reporters looking for him at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. found he had ducked out to buy his six-year-old son a small green turtle as a replacement for a pet chameleon that had died...
...operative reason was Governor Orval Faubus. Already the board had rejected a "solution" by Faubus that masked segregation with an illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...
Brains & Money. Though the growing company needed Reiner's inventive genius and Klaus's gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains...
...even death did not spare her a final characteristic misadventure. Her body lay in state for several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...