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U.S. Catching Up In Space Race
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By Robert Musel
By Robert Musel United Press International
INTERNATIONAL LONDON, (UPI) The Soviet Union is still ahead in the forse, but the United States is fast catching up, the publication "Jane's All The World's Aircraft" said today.
The authoritative Jane's hinted the United States soon may even be ready to forge ahead of the Russians with its new giant booster rocket which is due next year.
The thick, 509-page book said the rocket would place the United States "in a position to become far more adventurous in space."
THE AMERICAN SUCCESS story —a long, tough, expensive, but brilliant comeback from the shock of the first Russian Sputnik in 1957 —was highlighted by Editor John W. R. Taylor in the new edition of the famous annual first published at the dawn of aviation 55 years ago.
Taylor said that although there was "always the possibility of surprises from the Soviet Union, the American effort had reached a stage where the two nations could work together on major projects such as lunar exploration on the basis of equal partnership—as suggested by the late President Kennedy.
TAYLOR SAID SUCH suggestions were "both timely and sensible" after a year in which Russia had "less success than usual" and the United States exceeded its objectives in the Mercury man-in-space program with the final 22-orbit flight of Major Gordon Cooper in May.
Explaining his assessment of the Russian Aerospace effort as less successful than usual Taylor said
"This may seem a strange comment to make at the end of a period in which Soviet pilots have established or retained a high proportion of the international aeronautics federation-recognized international records, including the absolute speed and free takeoff height records, and in which Soviet rockets have put astronauts, both male and female, into orbit for periods of up to nearly five days.
"BUT THE REAL MEASURE o achievement in aviation is a day-to-day service, not once-only exploits and here the Soviet picture looks less self-assured than it did at the end of 1962.
"India is said to have complained that the MIG-21 fighters it bought from the Soviet Union have deficiencies, particularly in electronics, armament and combat radius. Ghana airways is returning four of its eight IL-18 turboprop transports to the Soviet Union, after logging with then an annual utilization of only 250 hours each and passenger load factors of 20 per cent.
"Nor has Russia's space program gone with its customary smoothness and unsullied success.
"THE RESULTS ACHIEVED have been spectacular and highly creditable but there is good reason to believe that the space twin, flights of Lt. Col. Bykovsky and Miss Terehskova failed to achieve all
Professor Named Trustee of Council
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, has been re-elected a trustee of the Research Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of English at the council's current meeting in San Francisco. of English at KU.
of English at KU, was one of three Haugh, supervisor of the teaching persons elected to the position. Since 1961 he has served as a trustee of the foundation, begun in 1960 to encourage research, experimentation and investigation in the teaching of English.
Haugh is past president of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English and editor of the council's publication, "Informing the Public About the English Language Arts."
He is also editor of Kansas Studies in Education and the KU Bulletin of Education.
their objectives, which may have included orbital rendezvous" and contact with the mars probe was lost before it could add to our knowledge of that exciting plane.
"By comparison, America's Mercury Man-In-Space program far exceeded its original—more limited—design objectives with the final 22-arbit flight of Gordon Cooper, while the Mariner 2 space probe sent back invaluable, if depressing, data concerning conditions on the planet Venus, ending our hope of finding any form of life known on Earth.
"With the Great Saturn Booster (Rocket) due to become operational in 1964-65, the United States will soon be in a position to become far more adventurous in space and the suggestion that America and the Soviet Union should work together on major projects like lunar exploration is both timely and sensible now that the prospective partners are attaining a measure of equality."
TAYLOR SAID "FANTASTIC" vehicles for space exploration have been reported during the year including the American Grumman lunar excursion module in which two astronauts may become the first men on the moon before the end of the decade.
Although the Grumman vehicle is intended for two Americans, Taylor commended that perhaps a American and a Russian might be in it when it finally attained its objective. He said the U.S. was already looking beyond the moon with a contract for Martian "Taxi" awarded to Philco's aeronautronic division.
The book, so up-to-date it has the first photograph of a Soviet anti-missile missile, taken on a parade through Moscow, Nov. 7, 1963's packed with intriguing information for air and space fans.
THE RUSSIANS NOW have their own version of the high-flying American U-2 reconnaissance plane. It is a Yakolev code name (YAK) given the NATO code name "mandrake." Its operational altitude is unknown out Russia set a conventional plane height record of 113,892 feet in 1961 and presumably a variation of the turbojet engines used on that occasion power mandrake.
A KU graduate and amateur poet will read selections of his writings at the SUA Poetry Hour at 4:30 this afternoon in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union
KU Alumnus To Read At SUA Poetry Hour
He is Ken Irby, a 1958 graduate with a B.S. in history. Irby later graduated from Harvard University with an M.A. in Chinese hist-
Irby works as a technical writer for a business corporation in Al-Buquerque, N.M., and edits a poetry newsletter. "Sum."
Foreigners Say Americans Best For Roommates
Irby has contributed poetry to the "Harvard Advocate" and "Change," a California poetry magazine.
Many foreign students at KU have expressed the desire to live with American roommates next semester.
The housing committee of People-to-People is receiving requests from many foreign students for rooms and in many cases, roommates for the Spring semester.
PATRICIA PRICE, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and acting chairman of the housing committee, said many of the foreign students submitting requests for roommates specifically requested the roommates be Americans.
The housing committee, through People-to-People, is going to act as a clearing house for the foreign students' requests. Miss Price said.
Many foreign students, according to reports to the housing committee, plan to move out of dormitories at the beginning of the Spring semester. These students, according to Miss Price, will be seeking apartments and roommates.
"THERE IS GOING to be a great big shuffle," Miss Price said. "The housing committee needs to know how many American students would like a foreign student roommate."
Miss Price said People-to-People has been trying to get foreign students to split up instead of living in groups from particular countries. Miss Price said any persons having apartments which are going to be vacant at the beginning of the Spring semester are asked to call the People-to-People office.
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Seminar To Explore 'Whys' Of Professions
Advanced graduate students will have the opportunity to explore the "whys" rather than the "hows" of their prospective professions next semester.
Charlton Price, visiting professor in the department of anthropology and sociology, told yesterday's faculty forum that a new seminar course (sociology 340 seminar in applied social science) will deal more with the reasons for and the objectives of a profession rather than its techniques.
Price said the graduate students will investigate the "value premises" of their fields of study. Taking psychiatry as an example, he said the students would investigate what goes on between the practitioner and the patient. They will try to explain what good health is, rather than study the accepted medical procedures.
Faculty members from the major departments of students in the course will participate in the course and act as special advisors to the students from their individual departments.
Faculty and students will work closely in their research in the new course, Charles Warriner, head of the anthropology and sociology department, said. "It is hoped." Warriner said, "that students and faculty and their departments will benefit from the course."
Three semester hours of credit will be offered for sociology 340.
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