HIDAN navigation tested on DC-3 for safer air travel
New York based General Precision Equipment Corp unveiled HIDAN a high density air navigation system tested on a DC-3. It pairs RADAN the automatic navigator with a cockpit indicator to display exact position and divergence from plan. The system aims to simplify air traffic control and reduce mid air collisions with full automatic onboard control. The U S Air Force has used RADAN since 1948 though previously classified.
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Nana
General Precision Equipment Corp
GPE
Edwin A. Link
Link
U.S. Air Force
Mexican Roads Swap Confusion for Logic
Mexico City adopts a new simple address system to replace confusing street and house numbers. Inventor Enrique Elias True, owner of a heavy equipment firm, patents it in Mexico and the U.S. and pilots in Acapulco with interest from U.S. cities. Taxi drivers struggle as confusion persists.
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Mexico City
Enrique Elias True
Mexico
United States
Acapulco
Saving Face Elimination by Red Chinese
Question of saving face in Mao era China shows top officials scrubbing floors, workers taking menial jobs, and ten thousand elites in Beijing apologizing for criticizing the Communist Party. A public display underscores a shift from pride to penitence as reform and political discipline reshape society.
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Red
China
Gate of Heavenly Peace
Smuggling Ring Cracks Over Belgian Cobalt to East Berlin
German and Belgian authorities busted a cobalt smuggling ring moving bulk loads from the Belgian Congo via Belgium and West Germany to East Berlin. The operation, led by Camille Croughs and Wanda Helena Baran, aimed to smuggle 166 tons valued at about 3.1 million to the Soviet bloc. A routine border chalk load revealed the hidden cobalt after a truck was found five tons overweight at Aachen.
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Nana
Germany
Russia
Belgian Congo
Belgium
West Germany
East Berlin
Cojblat
Camille Croughs
Wanda-Helena Baran
Sweden
Croughs
Miss Baran
Reinhard Gehlen
Soviet Union
Gehlen
Aachen
Wife thanks officials after arresting traffic offender
The Tulsa County Attorney J Howard Edmondson received an unusual letter from the wife of a traffic offender. She praised officials for arresting her husband and said the ticket system is the cheapest insurance that he will return home safely. She added that each ticket reminded him he has been flirting with death.
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Tulsa
Okla
J. Howard Edmondson
Power pills drive tests at Dahlgren ordnance grounds
Dahlgren Virginia reports that small explosive cartridges, called power pills, yield remarkable pushes. A cartridge slightly over an inch long drives a ton-weight a foot at 14 feet per second, while another under an ounce moves a 1250 pound load three inches in 0.0005 seconds. They power tests from auto ejection to industrial uses like drilling and metal fusion.
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Navy
Ordnance Proving Grounds
Creature Menaces Man's Earthly Rule
Milwaukee feature argues women surpass men in intelligence and numbers, predicting male decline. It claims US death rates favor women by 50 percent and that women outnumber men, with 138 women per 100 men anticipated by 1975, concluding on page 3 column 1.
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United States
Eisenhower Eyes New Canada United Western Pact
President Eisenhower will propose a dramatic partnership with Canada during a July Ottawa visit aimed at strengthening economies and defense of the free world. A high source indicated Canada could join the United States Britain and France in a new big four Western power alliance and participate in expanded world trade to ease tensions and counter Soviet economic moves.
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United States
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Free World
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Russia
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Syria
Egypt
Nixon
Global Refrigeration Urged To Avoid Melting Ice Calamity
Prominent polar scientist Dr Laurence Gould warns warming global temperatures threaten seacoasts. He notes Antarctic temperatures rose six degrees since 1928 30 and predicts New York Boston San Francisco areas could flood while Denver gains strategic importance. He suggests global refrigeration to preserve polar ice.
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Nana
Laurence Gould
South Pole
Richard Byrd
Erwise
Gould
Carleton College
Northfield
Minn
New York
Boston
Francisco
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Greenland
Harvard chemists claim breakthrough in artificial chlorophyll synthesis
Harvard University chemists led by Dr. Robert Burns Woodward say they have cleared the final hurdle to synthesizing chlorophyll, the green pigment essential to photosynthesis. They note the molecule contains 55 carbon atoms, four nitrogen, five oxygen, one magnesium and 72 hydrogen, marking a major step toward production of the pigment outside plants.
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Boston
NANA
Harvard University
Harvard
Robert Burns Woodward
Morris Loeb
Woodward
Dating Norms Shift Among College Students
A University of Michigan study led by Professor Robert O Blood Jr finds dating on campus has become more solid and relaxed. Students of all classes and affiliations favor dates who are pleasant cheerful have humor and are natural. The research covers what is needed to be popular as a date and preferences in casual and serious dating.
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New York
NAA
Robert O. Blood Jr
University of Michigan
Yellow Tunes Hit In China
Hong Kong dispatch reports a crackdown on jazz and sex themed culture in Red China. Thousands of youths have been jailed in an anti yellow campaign as Communist papers warn against undesirable music heard in stores, factories, and schools. Some pre‑Communist celebrities are reviving old recordings. Concluded on Page 3, Col. 3.
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Tien An
Communist Party
Democratic’ Parties
China
Hong: Kong
People’s Daily
Peiping
Dutch Wave Machine Delights World’s Fair Pavilions
At the World’s Fair the Dutch showcase a pool wave machine that simulates sea motion for swimmers. A life-size dyke exhibit, lighthouse and reed work illustrate Holland’s battle against flooding while a glass pool demonstrates how giant metal sheets push water to form waves used to test dyke strength.
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United States
Delft
Holland
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