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...have known him since Yale Law School days (1946-48). What has delighted me about Adam has been that he combines ability, intelligence and integrity with imagination and ingenuity. He refuses to be the routine bureaucrat. Although not really an outdoorsman. he accompanied one paratroop group aloft on a training exercise as an observer. He then jumped with them. At another time he took a cruise on a Polaris submarine. Many of us think we need more Yarmolin-skys in Washington, not fewer...
...fact, a nuclear testing control system already in successful operation. The satellites launched last fall have been working perfectly three months longer than their expected life; their builders think they will stay on the job for at least nine months more without giving trouble. The two that were fired aloft last week should have an even longer life, and they carry more and better instruments...
California's Ampex Corp. has developed a similar system, called "Travelvision" for showing movies and television on planes, ships, buses and trains, and within two months will install the first system in a U.S. airline. Flexer's Inflight has 35 systems working aloft for TWA, another four for Pakistan International Airlines; it has also obtained a waiver of its exclusive TWA contract so that it can service noncompeting routes, is presently negotiating with one international and four domestic lines...
Constantly increasing air travel has brought commercial airlines constantly increasing headaches. And control of the swift traffic aloft is only a part of the problem. With their high speeds and long landing runs, the big jetliners demand long runways on which to set down, but few cities have that kind of space near by. Convenient, close-in air ports, which are usually small, have become the domain of smaller planes and feeder airlines...
...Atlantic). Flügelhorn, anyone? Ex-trumpeter Farmer is using the soft, sweet monster in his new quartet, and to further melt the sound, he has replaced the piano with a guitar (played by Jim Hall). The melodic lines in Embraceable You are several yards long and barely kept aloft by a faint little beat. An album for those who take their jazz with plenty of cream and sugar...