Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were being swept along last week by an onrush of events which were now well beyond their control-or the control of any other individual. They were two men of more than ordinary intelligence-well educated, quiet men caught in what one of them described as a "tragedy of history." Their paths first crossed 13 years ago; but their separate stories began much earlier: one in a commercial artist's household in Philadelphia, the other in a dry-goods merchant's respectable home in Baltimore...
...Voted, 40 to 6, in favor of the "majority" (U.S.-backed) plan for world control of atomic energy, kept the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission alive in the hope of finding something acceptable to Russia...
...Rejected, 39 to 6, a Russian propaganda proposal to reduce armaments of the Big Five by one-third within one year; approved, 43 to 6, a Belgian resolution that "no agreement is attainable . . . for the reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces" so long as information and control agencies are lacking...
...sure that this system, combined with blind landing devices at the airports, will make U.S. flying enormously safer and more regular. But CAA considers the system merely "transitional." The ultimate control system, which will become necessary as air traffic gets denser, will keep the planes moving like railroad trains on a "block system." Each plane will keep to a well-marked "track" in space. Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail...
...classy, high-rated Lowell team continued its victory streak with a solid 51 to 23 win over Adams. The Bellboy five couldn't miss, scoring on set shots, hook shots by John Altrocchi, and fast drive ins by high scorer (21) "Goldie" Goldsmith. The squad also kept firm control of the backboards. In the B League game, Adams beat Lowell...