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...Institute will also bring in a large number of outside speakers who will talk on a variety--of non-management problems. Attorney General Nicholas Katsenbach and a number of Harvard Faculty members will be included in this group; the topics they discuss will range from race relations to the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on police practices...
...Your excellent story on the recorder [July 15] was incomplete. Many Americans, including me, heard their first recorder played by the Trapp family in the late '40s. The impact of that group continues to be felt in many recorder groups now playing. What a pity that Sound of Music ignored the recorder completely...
Once man knows more precisely just what the weather is going to do and where, he can not only prepare for it but bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing...
...dropping Thunderbirds and Mercurys nose-first from cranes; they have also run cars into concrete barriers, then watched the crack-ups on stop-action movie screens. As a result of the lessons learned, Ford President Arjay Miller announced in Detroit last week that some 1969 models will have collapsible, impact-absorbing front ends as a safety feature...
...fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces by 20% to 30%, and thus reduce passenger injuries...