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...hears the sound pattern of a "localizer" radio beam when he is approximately eight miles from the end of the runway. He follows the beam, and soon a radio beacon warns him by means of a sound signal in his earphones and a purple light flashing on his instrument panel that he is five miles from touchdown. A few seconds later, he picks up the "glide slope" beam, which controls a pair of pointers on the plane's instrument panel. By flying his plane to keep the pointers properly positioned, the pilot can keep to the center...
...area for "reading out" by pushing one of a set of buttons marked with letters of the alphabet. He pushed "J" to demonstrate, and after a brief flashing of lights and grinding of gears, a diagram in glowing green lines appeared on a screen set in the control panel. "The board is now projecting a slide of water and steam pipes in area J," said Mr. McFarlane, "which happens to be the Indoor Athletic Building. Now within this area, we can take a number of readings"--he referred here to a book that listed the possibilities and showed us that...
Actually, a big step was taken last November under an arbitration award by a panel created by the Congress. It granted carriers the right to eliminate gradually 90% of the firemen on diesels, along with unneeded trainmen, including some brakemen and switchmen. This reduction of up to 40,000 employees would save the carriers about $325 million a year. The unions have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Three Faculty members have been appointed to an informal panel of 27 intellectuals to serve as "idea men" for President Johnson. They are Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and David Reisman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences...
Healy, who served on the arbitration panel established by Congress to resolve the issues of crew size and firemen, said that johnson's intervention and personal attention "almost on a hourly basis" had brought about the first true bargaining between railroads and unions since the dispute began nearly five years...