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...have all the answers," he says. "But that is what SDI is all about. It is a research program." One way to test the system thoroughly, he says, may be through computer simulations of a full-scale nuclear war--a goal he thinks can eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Died. Rear Admiral Donald B. Mac-Millan, 95, veteran Arctic explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, geographer and naturalist; in Provincetown, Mass. Mac-Millan's first voyage to the Arctic was with Robert E. Peary on his historic discovery of the North Pole in 1908-09, and the experience so moved MacMillan that he returned 29 times over the next half-century. He crisscrossed the polar region by dog sled, snowmobile and airplane, and sailed into the ice aboard his sturdy schooner Bowdoin. All the while, he made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora...
...companies controlled by the MacMillans held 900,000 shares in Windfall-and Canadian law, unlike that in the U.S., does not force company officers to disclose what they have bought or sold. The Toronto Stock Exchange took a close look at Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., one of Viola Mac-Millan's companies. At the exchange's request, Viola disclosed that at the beginning of June, Golden Arrow had owned 120,000 shares of Windfall, then bought an additional 38,000 shares for $30,778. All of these 158,000 shares, she said, had been sold during...
...scared to speak, our allies are so scared that they are all speaking at once. Prime Minister Mac-millan's recent suggestion of an East-West non-agression pact is tangible evidence that the glow of confidence and unity of purpose permeating the NATO meeting was artificial and ephemeral. In itself, Macmillan's idea is harmless and could even prove worthwhile if it stimulates eventual top-level disarmament discussion...
...shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken, but he was ever anxious to head back to the Arctic. With explorer friends Sir Hubert Wilkins, Admiral Donald Mac-Millan, Colonel Bernt Balchen and Lowell Thomas, he had arrived in Alaska to make TV films when death came...