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The Allure of ICBMs: Chasing Birds and Dancing with Skirts

Posted on June 5, 2008August 30, 2010 by Ed Medley

In early March 1969, I was hired by Siegel Associates, a small Canadian geophysical exploration instrument manufacturer. The firm was soon to become Scintrex, one of the world’s leading geophysical exploration consultancies (in spite of my total ignorance of geophysics.) Dr. Harry Siegel and his Senior Geophysicist, Mike L~, had hired me because they liked…

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