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...problem is to translate the concept into hard decisions, to anticipate what military challenges will be forthcoming and what American response should meet them. Just how difficult this task can be was pointed out by Edward S. Quade, head of the Rand Corp.'s mathematics department, in a discomforting but only slightly exaggerated observation. "A long-range military problem," he said, "is comparable to the problems of the owner of a racing stable who wants to win a horse race to be run many years hence, on a track not yet built, between horses not yet born. To make...
...Rand E. Rosenblatt '66 of Adams Honse and Rome, Italy, won the $600 first prize for his essay, "The British Foreign Office in the 1930's: Three Events and a Theme...
Five of the Knox Fellowship were awarded this year to Adams House seniors. They are John D. Gerhart of Abiline, Texas; Barry F. O' Connell of Moravia, N.Y.; Rand E. Rosenblatt of Rome, Italy; Peter H. Weiner of Los Angels, and William F. Weld of Marblehead...
Other members of the force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses...
Traffic-handling techniques on the ground have lagged 20 years behind today's planes, but there is also need for more modern equipment on the jets themselves. That equipment is on the way. Sperry Rand Corp. is developing an inertial-navigation system for Pan Am so that pilots soon will be able to know exactly where they are at all times-without any visual reference to ground or water. Airlines are experimenting with lasers and other devices to spot the dreaded "CAT" (clear-air turbulence), which may have torn the tail off a BOAC jet near Mount Fuji...