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...raised ominous and specific questions. Two years ago, the Air Line Pilots Association called Tweed-New Haven Airport one of the nation's ten most dangerous, and last week the airport manager said that the crash would not have occurred if the airport had been equipped with an instrument-landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor, a Marine radar...
...station, the Russians launched Soyuz 11. Equipped with improved docking mechanism, the 71-ton spaceship rendezvoused with Salyut after 24 hours. With Test Engineer Viktor Patsayer, 38, leading the way, the cosmonauts feigned surprise upon entering Salyut's large, living-room-size interior, complete with instrument panels, separate compartments, kitchen and housekeeping equipment and even a small library. "This place is tremendous," said Dobrovolsky. "There seems...
...breakthrough was the invention of RDX (research department explosives) which was much more effective than TNT. After three years of conventional explosives research. Kistiakowsky began his two years of research on the atomic bomb. Next, he said, "we finally understood how to control detonation of explosives as a precision instrument-using very high pressure very suddenly...
...instrument for change will be the National, Advertising Review Board, which is being formed by the major advertising trade associations in cooperation with the Council of Better Business Bureaus. The review board, expected to be operating by fall, will consist of 50 members representing advertising agencies, industry and the public. B.B.B. offices around the country will accept complaints about national print or broadcast ads, and a Manhattan-based staff of ad specialists will monitor promotions. If an advertiser ignores the complaints, the matter will go to the review board, which will then 1) determine whether the complaint is justified...
...remarkable new instrument is the result of an almost singlehanded campaign by the 60-year-old head of Bonn University's Institute of Radio Astronomy. Trying to restore some of Germany's prewar scientific luster, Professor Otto Hachenberg personally supervised the design, persuaded the Volkswagen foundation to pay most of the cost ($9 million), and nagged the builders to complete the complicated job from blueprints to operation in a short 3½ years...