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...five-week session was the start of a $2.45 million Army project called Janus, after the two-faced god that guarded Rome in wartime. Beginning next year, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., which trains high-ranking officers for top command positions, will use a copy of the Janus program as a regular part of its ten-month curriculum. "Janus," says one of its Livermore admirers, "is light-years ahead of any Atari game...
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DIED. Dave Garroway, 69, hornrimmed, bow-tied founding host of NBC's Today show; by his own hand (shotgun); in Swarthmore, Pa. Today's producers were looking for a dynamic personality in 1952 until Garroway sold them on "a lean-against-the-ladder, go-to-sleep-standingup guy like me." Of his style, he once said, "I talk right to the camera as if it were the one other single person who is here with me." He mixed movie and book reviews with political reports, as well as off-hand comments on personal passions such as sports cars...
DIED. Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, president, then chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from 1956 to 1967, who turned the struggling company into a leviathan; of gunshot wounds during a break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled...