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...helicopter pilots, all-weather blind flying without ground guidance at the landing site has been a long-sought goal. Last week in Dallas, the goal was reached by Bell Aviation helicopter division and Bendix Aviation, which successfully tested an "electronic road map" that tells a pilot exactly where he is within a 100-sq.-mi. area. Using the landing system, the helicopter took off and flew to within 20 ft. of its destination without the pilot's being able...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...Gulf of Mexico swept a curtain of snow. It whistled through the stricken plains (see map), lashing into the land under 80 m.p.h. winds. It piled up mountainous drifts, leveled windmills and fences, ripped up loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson...
Between commercials, the airline and travel-agency plugs and the ejaculations of the transmitter, Godfrey occasionally described an average day. Viewers could look at a map of Africa on their TV screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
...University should plan to apportionate a part of the $5,000,000 sought in the fund drive to the establishment of a four chair geography department, as recommended by the committee. The Geographic Institute and its excellent map collection provide an admirable base upon which Harvard can rebuild its geography department. The reestablishment of geography at Harvard will be of great value to the University as a whole and will end the somewhat ridiculous position that it now occupies, that of being the only major American or European university not having a geography department...