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...council has arranged for 20,000 Americans to take a fitness test given yearly in Soviet schools; in exchange, the U.S.S.R. Committee on Physical Culture and Sport will try the council's test on an equal number of Soviet youth. The experiment started earlier this month in El Segundo, Calif., where 250 students ages seven to 17 sweated through the Soviet test...
...gave the rebels 30 minutes to surrender. The mutiny ended without a shot, but the rebels won an apparent concession in the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Hector Rios Erenu, 56, who supported the trials. Alfonsin replaced Rios Erenu last week with former Inspector General Jose Segundo Dante Caridi, 56. The appointment, however, promptly led to renewed unrest at infantry garrisons in the northern provinces of Salta and Tucuman, where troops backed Training Institute Director General Augusto Vidal for the top military post. Said one insider: "The President was not about to show that the rebels could...
Brian Daly, public relations manager for Rockwell International, experiences that synergy nearly every working day. When a reporter calls with a question that he cannot immediately answer, Daly plugs into a network that reaches from the company's Pittsburgh headquarters to its El Segundo, Calif., aerospace facility, linking 10,000 terminals, 7,000 personal computers, 60 high-performance minicomputers and one Cray X-MP supercomputer. Tapping that electronic brain trust, he can quickly get answers on anything from the status of Rockwell's satellites to the prospects for more B-1 bombers. "The value of networking is that...
...electrical engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Jarvis earned a master's degree in engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1969, became a specialist in tactical communications satellites at the Air Force Space Division in El Segundo, Calif., and rose to the rank of captain. During his time in the service, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. He left the Air Force in 1973 to join the Hughes Aircraft Co. as an engineer. There, Jarvis was again working on the design of advanced satellites when NASA asked...
...Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since I was four that I haven't been in school...