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Pusey retired last year to head the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City. He announced his retirement early in 1970--ten months after the April 1969 takeover of University Hall--and thereby put into gear one of the most elaborate search procedures for a successor ever devised. Another of today's degree recipients, Paul Samuelson, was among those considered by the Corporation to replace Pusey...
...running game was in high gear again the next Saturday in Ithaca, but the Crimson was faced with a rather formidable running game in the person of Ed Marinaro. The defense held Marinaro to 17 yards in six carries in the first quarter, but then Cornell discovered Harvard's weak link--the defensive secondary--opened up the Harvard defense with a few completions, and went back to Marinaro to take a 21-10 lead. A late game rally ended abruptly when Foster underthrew two wide-open receivers in the Cornell endzone, and once again an interception left the Crimson defeated...
Though the mission involves no really new maneuvers, there are technical problems to be overcome. Soviet and American spaceships have different electronic equipment, for example, and communicate over different radio frequencies; compatible gear will have to be developed. To coordinate communications further, an American flight controller will probably have to be on duty at the Soviet mission control in Tyuratam while a Russian stands by in Houston. The crews will also train together in both countries. Beyond that, the U.S. and Russia must make their craft capable of docking. The solution will be to equip them with compatible latch-rimmed...
...equipment will be added not on the ground but in the plane. Built around small onboard computers and other complex electronic gear, it will give the pilot instant access to information that until now has been relayed from the ground or has required time-consuming computations in the cockpit. R-Nav will provide continuous bearings pointing toward any predetermined destination; it will supply the plane's exact position throughout the trip and immediate corrections whenever the plane veers off course. If the pilot should make a mistake in punching out his route on the keyboard...
Advanced Systems. Though still a relatively new development, R-Nav gear already is available in varying degrees of complexity and cost. For small craft, there is relatively inexpensive (about $2,000) gear, like Narco's Freeflight courseline computer, that makes continuous calculations of distance and direction to the next waystation. On a higher level, there are systems like Omnitrac, made by Britain's Decca Navigator Co. and tested successfully on Eastern's Washington-New York-Boston shuttle. It not only gives the pilot the required altitude for his flight path but also displays his plane...