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DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
...charge suggested by the Dowling Committee is implemented, it may be refundable on request like the current RUS charge, although Joseph F. McDonough '81, a committee member, has argued strenuously that it should be mandatory because "student government is as necessary as heating rooms." Nancy Northrop '82, a third student on the committee, says the charge should be optional so that "if students are dissatisfied with the new assembly they can show it by taking their money back." Other members of the committee say making the charge optional will increase chances of approval by the Corporation, which has denied requests...
...Nancy Northrop '81, author of the proposal, told the other members of the joint student-faculty governance review committee that consolidation of the three existing student groups would lead to greater efficiency and accountability...
...Under Northrop's plan--supported by two other student members of the ad hoc committee-each house and section of the Yard would elect delegates to specific subcommittees of the undergraduate council. A subcommittee on academics would fulfill the current duties of ERG, and two or three subcommittees would divide up the responsibilities of the CHUL student caucus...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and a member of the review committee, said yesterday Northrop's plan 'would certainly simplify things and provide for informed representatives...