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...labor, entitled My First Car, is on view this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It is not a car, to be precise, but a set of four components - a wooden mockup chassis, a chassis with engine, and two bodies, one of metal, the other of stretched glider cloth - all of which could theoretically be fitted together...
Died. Erhard Milch, 79, protégé of Hermann GÖring who helped set up the Luftwaffe; in Lüneburg, West Germany. Milch organized flying schools and glider clubs during the period in which Germany was barred by treaty from having an air force. He also became managing director of Lufthansa during the '20s. GÖring valued his talent and loyalty so highly that he arranged to have Milch's Jewish paternity officially denied (his mother was non-Jewish). During World War II, Milch was made Luftwaffe chief of staff, a cabinet member...
...discarded water boiler a steam cannon with which I could shoot plugs of potato and carrot over the houses of our neighbors." He also devised a flotation system to separate green from ripe elderberries, which he used to sell from door to door. Although his attempts to build a glider and a perpetual motion machine ended in failure, his innovative tinkering was to pay off handsomely in the laboratory in later years...
Other members of our own Apollo-15 crew might be uncomfortable in a glider, but they are veterans of space coverage. Filing extensively from Cape Kennedy and Houston on the science of the flight, lunar geology, and the reactions of the crew and controllers as glitches arose, John Wilhelm, Leo Janos and James Schefter made good use of long experience on the space beat. Fred Golden, who wrote the story, has been our Science writer for two years. Don Neff, who edited the article, was TIME'S Houston bureau chief in 1968-69 and covered Apollo shots 6 through...
...Lockheed in Burbank and Palmdale, Calif. There, Lockheed had been building the TriStar superjet, for which Rolls was supposed to supply the engines. The bitter joke on both sides of the Atlantic was that the Rolls crash has made the 256-passenger TriStar "the world's largest glider...