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...airliners carry weather radar, but the sets show only the proximity of storms and not other aircraft. The FAA soon hopes to have an automatic, lightweight anticollision device that would warn approaching planes, as in the New York crash. One possibility: Bendix Corp. has developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola...
Pedalless Car. Automobile controls that eliminate the brake and gas pedals were demonstrated by Bendix Corp. Two pressure plates flush with the floorboards replace the pedals. Braking is faster because the driver does not have to lift his foot. Bendix claims the development will make pedals "as obsolete as the hand crank...
...will remain as a Ford director and chairman of the finance committee, has for three years wanted to "decelerate" at Ford after what he describes as "more than 40 years of an extremely active business life." Breech, a onetime General Motors vice president, in 1946 left the presidency of Bendix Aviation Corp. to join Ford as executive vice president. He reorganized production, boosted prices, brought in new executives, became board chairman in 1955. Since the company prefers to have a Ford in the presidency for the prestige of the name, Henry Ford will probably keep the presidency, not the chairmanship...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) goes after hijacking, kidnaping, scene-snatching. Guest Star William Bendix...
...others: New Orleans' Nahan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix...