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Burke had been unable to recall the names of the members of the Committee on Solicitation earlier this week. Yesterday, however, Trottenberg said that Dean Watson; Wallace McDonald '44, Director of the Financial Aid Office; Burke; and Trottenberg himself composed the committee...
Scooters & Checks. Besides Hull & Co., there is the "Scooter Line," consisting of Center Stan Mikita, 22, and Forwards Ab McDonald and Ken Wharram, who have scored 57 goals among them. Then there is the Chicago defense. Only 134 goals have been scored against the Hawks so far this season, best record of any team in the league. Defenseman Elmer Vasko, 27, is the biggest man in hockey at 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs., and takes a special joy in grinding ambitious enemy forwards into the boards. As for Goalie Glenn Hall, 31, an N.H.L. All-Star...
...reaction to the plan from other steel companies has been unfavorable. They fear that it takes away management's basic right to decide how to spend its income, and opens the company's most intimate statistics to union officials. Even Steelworker President David J. McDonald is not yet prepared to give the Kaiser plan a final endorsement: he wants to see how it works out during its four-year trial period and is unlikely in the meantime to demand similar concessions from the Eastern companies. But if it proves successful, the Kaiser plan might work a significant change...
...McDonald estimates that the complete tube launching system would cost about $400,000 and that it could be reused many times. An equivalent rocket launched from some landlocked pad would use more than ten times as much fuel to reach the same speed...
...launch a 100,000-lb. rocket (about the weight of a Delta rocket), McDonald proposes to use a steel tube 8 ft. in diameter, 1,160 ft. long, anchored vertically in the sea. At the bottom, a door that keeps water out will open only when the pressure inside exceeds 500 lbs. per sq. in. The rocket will be suspended just above a mass of auxiliary fuel at the bottom of the tube. The top of the tube will be closed by airtight doors, and most of the air inside will be pumped...