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...Northrop Test Pilot Ronald E. Owen, 36, swished skyward from an airport some 50 miles to the northeast, near the desert community of Palmdale, in an F89 Scorpion twin jet interceptor. The Scorpion, equipped with new radar, was soon to be returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes on the enemy in unshakable pursuit, then at the proper moment, opens fire automatically...
...road in a single contract, rather than chop them up in six-or seven-mile bits for smaller local operators. This should not pinch the small man, because the pie is big enough for all. But it will make for efficiency. As U.S. Public Roads Commissioner C. D. Curtiss said last week: on a $300,000 job, contractors can build only $1.56 worth of highway for every $1 worth of equipment. On a $5,000,000 contract, the figure...
...biocontrol-turning men into robots [TIME, Oct. 15]-as expounded by Engineer Curtiss Schafer is the most chilling scientific vision in many a year. For man to be enslaved by electrical processes, his spirit and genius and upward thrust mechanically coerced and molded to the will of a malignant Grand Inquisitor-this is the final madness...
...familiar horror of science fiction is the slave whose thoughts and actions are governed by an electronic gadget grafted into his brain. There might be some truth in this fiction, says Electrical Engineer Curtiss R. Schafer, who designs and develops electronic instruments for the Norden-Ketay Corp. of New York City. Electronics, he believes, could save a lot of work for the indoctrinators and thought-controllers of the future...
When skidding Studebaker-Packard Corp. was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy last summer (TIME, July 30), President James J. Nance agreed with his benefactor, Curtiss-Wright Corp., that he would surrender his $150,000-a-year job. Nance also gave up a long-term contract that would have paid him $200,000 a year by 1961 plus a guaranteed annual wage of $40,000 if he left. In return, Jim Nance got a fat unemployment compensation settlement. The deal, disclosed last week: a $286,000 trust fund, an additional $75,000 plus for salary through Jan. 31. He also...