Human Factor Key to Safer Flight, Mohler Says
Dr. Stanley Mohler, head of the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute, says human reflexes, judgment, and mental condition drive 90 percent of air accidents as aviation speeds rise. A $6 million aeromedical research building was dedicated to study pilot fatigue, mood, stress, and cockpit alerting methods to reduce errors.
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Georgetown institutes seek index to extend pilots beyond 60
The Georgetown Clinical Research Institute and universities pursue a functional age index to assess pilots ability to fly carrier aircraft beyond the current 60 year cutoff. If a pilot’s functional age is lower than his chronological age, he could remain eligible.
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Georgetown Clinical Research Institute
NFU Pushes Plan To Halt Milk Surplus
The National Farmers Union proposed a Brannan plan type payment to curb milk overproduction and raise dairyman incomes by about 1 billion dollars annually. The plan would pay dairy producers up to parity prices based on their 1961 62 output, with potential retail price reductions of 8 to 10 percent.
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Bull runs wild for 80 minutes before cows corral it
In Durham England an angry bull named Ferdi fled the streets for 80 minutes evading police and stopping traffic. Officers called in reinforcements from a slaughterhouse and a herd of cows finally trapped the animal which calmed once it mixed with the herd and moved away peacefully.
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UPI
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Youth Rally Draws Thousands at Cotton Bowl during State Fair
Dallas AP Thousands of youths gathered at the Cotton Bowl for the final night of the 1962 State Fair of Texas. Dr. Walter Kerr led a non denominational crusade with educators and youth leaders from five Texas universities. Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell described the event as building liberty, character, and faith.
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America
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Judge rules Georgia votes counted by districts in race for first Negro legislator since Reconstruction
Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye rejects a federal order and declares district voting in a Georgia senatorial election, paving the way for the election of the first Black member to a Southern Legislature since Reconstruction. He denounces federal judges as lacking jurisdiction in the case.
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Georgia
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UN committee rejects Thant plan to enlarge headquarters
A U.N. advisory committee rejected Acting Secretary-General U Thant's proposal to spend 6.34 million dollars on a two story annex to the Secretariat Building to house up to 126 members. The committee favored enlarging the trusteeship council chamber at 297 thousand dollars and accepted other Thant proposals bringing total to about 1.93 million, far below his 8.01 million plan. The final decision rests with the General Assembly with budgetary committee review expected soon amid UN financial strains from Congo and Middle East forces.
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Cancer Society Reports 1.2 Million Americans Cured
The American Cancer Society says over 1.2 million Americans have been cured, defined as alive without disease at least five years after diagnosis and treatment. It estimates 177,000 new cancers in 1963 with 44,000 saved vs earlier years, and 700,000 diagnosed in the last five years likely to join the cured group. Open at the society’s 49th annual meeting.
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American Cancer Society
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U.S
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