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With regard to the Dartmouth Carnival, Rand said, "As far as Dartmouth is concerned, these boys can race. We do not want to make an issue of the matter because we don't think the boys knew they were breaking the rules of the meet...
Their suspension, however, will not bar them from collegiate meets which are not sanctioned by the EASA. John Rand, executive director of the Dartmouth Outing Club, said that three of the five are entered in the Dartmouth Carnival and will be allowed to race...
...Plug and M.I.T., is "inertial guidance." Its heart is a subtle instrument that senses every force that acts on the flying missile, the enormous force of the rocket thrust and the delicate forces of crosswinds and yawing motions. This information goes to a computer (contracts with Burroughs and Sperry Rand) that figures out the missile's position, speed and direction. If any one of these is not right for the programmed trajectory, the computer makes corrections, moving the missile's fins or regulating its fuel to put it back on its proper course...
Today, so much else is going on in Florida that the peril of overemphasizing the playgrounds seems to be passing. Gainesville (pop. 32,000) has a new $600,000 Sperry Rand plant making klystron tubes...
COSMOPOLITAN WORLD ATLAS [Rand McNally; $13.95) is a fine new atlas chockful of up-to-the-minute information about every quarter of the globe...