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SIDNEY METZGER
Pages 212-215

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... These included early installation of 24 voice channel timedivision multiplexing, 2000 MHz equipment in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, and several states in the United States. This design was later produced by various ITT companies worldwide.
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... Wernher von Braun's group in Huntsville, Alabama. From 1957 to 1963 he was manager of the Communications Engineering Department of the newly formed RCA Astro Electronics Division, with technical and administrative responsibility for the communications engineering (system and equipment)
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... He would nap during meals, at concerts and Washington Senators baseball games, and once while sitting in the front row of a Manila auditorium during a lengthy speech by then-President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines -- which led to a receiving-line snub the next day by Marcos' wife Imelda. He took great joy in his family.
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