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...problem is to translate the concept into hard decisions, to anticipate what military challenges will be forthcoming and what American response should meet them. Just how difficult this task can be was pointed out by Edward S. Quade, head of the Rand Corp.'s mathematics department, in a discomforting but only slightly exaggerated observation. "A long-range military problem," he said, "is comparable to the problems of the owner of a racing stable who wants to win a horse race to be run many years hence, on a track not yet built, between horses not yet born. To make...
When they built their strange-looking vehicle five years ago, engineers at Aerojet's Space-General Corp. in California were aiming for space. Their Moon Walker had six legs, stereo TV for eyes, and was crammed full of detection and communications equipment. It was designed to land on the moon with a Surveyor spacecraft...
...generator. In 1964, after failing to sell his idea, he rounded up a handful of fellow scientists, raised $200,000 and founded his own company-Gourdine Systems, Inc. He is already producing laboratory EGD generators for use in college and high school demonstrations, and has licensed Foster Wheeler Corp.-an industrial boiler manufacturer-to build EGD generators for industry...
Games as miniature models of conflict among men are as old as chess and as new as the "wars" fought by scholars in such think factories as the Rand Corp. Carried by a tide of curriculum reform, games are now moving into colleges and grade schools, mainly to help students get an inside feel of social and political conflict...
...come from Viet Nam. The Defense Department last year took 80% of the $875 million output of the seven major producers: Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing-Vertol, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division, Kaman, Hughes Tool, Fairchild-Hiller and Brantly, which was acquired last week by Lear Jet Corp. This year the Pentagon will spend $1.3 billion for 3,156 choppers, absorb 90% of U.S. production...