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Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England...
PETER LANYON-Viviano, 42 East 57th. "If you go to St. Ives you will notice the blue," says Lanyon of his English birthplace and home, and if you go to see his paintings you will too. Lanyon likes to float low in his glider, a vantage point that wins him curious perspectives: Lake looks like a rubber life raft filled with water, North East seems to offer a view right through a terrace table, and Spring Coast is a maze of curves and curlicues in phosphorescent green and fresh red. Through...
...championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks ago, his Skeeter hit a hidden "pressure heave" in the ice. One runner snapped off and flew back-and that accounts for the 15 stitches in Perrigo's face...
Dead Dyna-Soar. About the same time that he gave MOL to the Air Force, McNamara killed Dyna-Soar, the winged, piloted space glider on which the Air Force has already spent $400 million, and was planning to spend many hundred million more. Even if Dyna-Soar succeeded in returning to earth on glowing wings, McNamara argued, it would do little to ad vance the military use of space. The glider would have been able to stay in orbit for only a few hours; it is not likely that its pilot would have learned anything not already known from NASA...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to abandon the Dyna-Soar space glider project offers an encouraging sign of budgetary restraint in the American space program. The Dyna-Soar project, which was expected to cost more than $1 billion, would have contributed little to U.S. military capability or scientific understanding of space. Since the Pentagon had already spent nearly $400 million on Dyna-Soar, its apparent determination to halt further extravagance on a program with limited potential is surprising and welcome...