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...prices may skyrocket and energy crises come and go, but the winds will blow forever. In an effort to tap that inexhaustible source of energy, everyone, from NASA's skilled aerodynamicists to do-it-yourself basement tinkerers, is now suddenly rediscovering one of the oldest technologies known to civilized man: the use of the windmill...
Huge Cylinders. This summer two dozen specialists, including O'Neill, will convene for ten weeks at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., to study the practical problems of getting the enormous project into orbit. Meanwhile, O'Neill, 48, is energetically continuing to press the idea in sci entific articles, television and radio talks, and in campus lectures at the rate of at least two a week. Says he: "The whole thing is exploding so fast that I am beginning to worry about how to make time for my work in physics...
Died. John B. McKay, 52, steel-nerved NASA test pilot, whose flights on the experimental X-15 rocket plane in the early 1960s helped lay the groundwork for later Mercury and Apollo space programs; of complications of injuries suffered in 1962, when his X-15 crash-landed so severely that he lost an inch of height as his spine compressed on impact; in Lancaster, Calif...
Williams also said yesterday, however, that NASA will continue to press the attorney general's office to bring suit against Harvard for its handling of the Williams, Stoughton and Sewell bequests, three small 18th century scholarships set up for Indians...
...NASA has claimed that Harvard never used the building for its designated purpose and therefore owes Indians the original endowment and 300 years of interest, a total of $2.5 million. NASA asked that the money be used to set up 20 scholarships for Indian students...