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...head of the federal agency having a continuous iso-year history in development of scientific geodesy, I especially appreciated your May 14 article on the Army Map Service determination of the earth's size...
...Army has succeeded in shrinking the circumference of the earth by about half a mile. To make the new estimate, according to a paper submitted to the American Geophysical Union by Bernard Chovitz and Irene Fischer of the Army Map Service, the Army's scientists used the latest instruments, but their basic method was the one the Greeks invented more than 2,000 years...
...estimating the distance between Syene in southern Egypt and Alexandria in northern Egypt.*Then he measured shadows cast by the sun in both places. This amounts to measuring an arc of the earth's surface and observing the altitude of the sun at both ends. The Army Map Service did the same thing, but the arc that it measured extended (5,777.5 nautical miles) from Finland to the southern end of Africa, more than one-quarter of the earth's circumference. Part of the arc coincided with the arc that Eratosthenes used...
Satellite & Missile. Then began the laborious work of correcting the raw information. Some of the arithmetical work was so burdensome that it would have taken years to complete without the help of the Map Service's UNIVAC computer...
...biggest trouble spot was in the auto industry. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther flatly said there was "no hope" for a sales pickup, asked auto and farm-equipment makers to meet with labor to map plans to help the industries' unemployed; he put the auto figure at 142,000, out of a total work force of 900,000. Detroit was worried, and rightly so. There was also a bright side to the picture. Used cars were moving well, and some late models were in such short supply that prices were better than last year...