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...Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then spelled out a program...
...Radar Bombsight. Actually, the week began with the Israelis demonstrating restraint. Apparently appalled by the death of 80 Egyptian civilians in the earlier bombing of a factory at Abu Zabal (TIME, Feb. 23), Israel collared its pilots. When Israeli jets took to the air, they were restricted to unmistakable military targets, bombing SA-2 missile sites at Dahshur and Helwan in the Cairo perimeter and Egyptian installations along the Suez Canal. President Gamal Abdel Nasser also claimed that he was practicing moderation. When...
...week's end, the Israelis finally explained the disastrous Abu Zabal bombing as "an incredible coincidence." The pilot was approaching the target at high speed and evading antiaircraft fire when his radar bombsight failed. While seeking his target visually, he saw reference points-an Arab village, long, low buildings, sand dunes and a road intersection -that looked exactly like those he had been told to look for as he approached a military base at Khanka. Actually, they were identical to features in Abu Zabal, two miles away from the intended target...
Died. Theodore H. Barth, 75, co-inventor (with the late Carl L. Norden) of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a New York-born engineer who started collaborating with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
...gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs' arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device. For years Burroughs built purely mechanical adding machines, typewriters, cash registers and check printers. Turning to defense production during World War II, the company developed the Norden bombsight, then began dabbling in computers in 1947, with a small research lab. Burroughs has since developed automated check-reading devices, computers and a new family of moderately priced electronic "business systems" that handle accounting, inventory, payroll, production programming and record keeping for banks or businesses that do not want...