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FAIRCHILD Engine & Airplane Corp. is building a prototype of a new lightweight earth mover, the Transair Tractor, which it hopes will revolutionize military and civilian construction equipment. Only 22½ ft. long, it weighs 13,000 Ibs. and can be carried in a C-119 Flying Boxcar. On the job, it can take on up to 40,000 Ibs. of dirt or water as ballast, do the job of a bulldozer, power shovel, or air compressor capable of running 12 pneumatic jackhammers. Fairchild, which will deliver the first model to the Army next December, hopes eventually to cut the price...
...effective of university presidents with a minimum of flash. "A college president," he says, "has two choices. One is to lean toward being a public figure. I decided to throw my weight toward Princeton." Dodds has built slowly and well on foundations that he never wanted to alter. Unlike Mover Conant or Shaker Hutchins, he can sum up his career so far with a refreshingly unorthodox boast: that in its basic philosophy, Princeton "has not changed in the least in the last 20 years...
...faith to preach beyond the limits of the questions raised. He bases most of his arguments for Christian doctrine on three familiar pillars: "X is not enough," free will, and the Scriptures. The first he uses largely to combat over weening faith in science. Invoking by implication the Prime Mover, he argues that science can not penetrate the world of the spirit...
...These three seemed to have unlimited capacity for work, so much so that I began to feel a little uneasy. While I didn't object to competition, I didn't want my position as prime mover and chairman of the Council usurped...
Died. Ralph Henry Cameron, 89, Maine-born Republican Senator from Arizona (1921-27), the state's last territorial delegate and a prime mover in its admission to the Union in 1912 as the 48th state; in Washington...