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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 15, 1951
Air Force Unveils Missile With 'Brain'
By UNITED PRESS
Washington—(U.P.)-The Air Force unveiled a supersonic guided missile today that can "think" for itself and soon will be available to destroy enemy bombers at great distances from American targets.
Making public first official details on the Falcon guided aircraft rocket (GAR), the Air Force described it as "the smallest guided missile in production and the only air-to-air missile with a 'brain' of its own."
The slender, six-foot, blunt-nosed rocket will be carried beneath the wings of such high-speed interceptor planes as the new F-102 and possibly the present F-89. Both are long-range, all-weather jet fighters.
The Falcon, under development by Hughes Aircraft Co., since 1947 soon will become a part of the regular armament of some interceptor units, the Air Force said.
Movies shown reporters revealed how the guided rocket, pointed on its way by the launching airplane, pursues its target despite effort by the bomber to evade it. World War II B-17 target drones disintegrated as the Falcon plowed into them. The Air Force said similar results have been achieved against jet propelled targets.
Announcement of the new missile and details on its electronic "brain" were timed to coincide with a speech in Dayton, Ohio, by Assistant Air Secretary Trevor Gardner.
He told an Air Force Institute of Technology graduating class that the Falcon will be one of the most important air defense developments since radar.
"What the American people will perhaps take greatest comfort in knowing is that the Falcon is designed for use in Air Force interceptors at bases in far-off arctic regions and other locations many, many miles from our centers of population," Gardner said.
Scabbard, Blade Initiates 40
Forty, Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC students were initiated into the University of Kansas chapter of Scabbard and Blade, national honorary military society, Thursday night.
The initiates are Dean Matthews, engineering junior; Edward Wakeland, college junior; John Lay, engineering Irish, business junior; Jammy Martin, business junior; Wayne Gerstenberger, college junior; Bernard McGuire, college junior; William Hurley, college junior; James Levey, college junior; James Dickerson, engineering senior; Harold Finch, engineering junior; Dean Graves, engineer-monochord; Donald Williams, college junior.
Robert Crisler, engineering junior; Paul Adam, engineering junior; Charles Hendrick, engineering junior; David Dickey, business junior; John Maddux, college junior; John Roger, business junior; Theodore Sexton, college junior; Billie Crow, engineering junior; Ralph Kelley, engineering junior;
Lloyd Breckenridge, engineering junior; John Hyson, engineering junior; Paul Enois, engineering junior; Sanford Enois, engineering junior; collegelege, Thomas McCall, engineering junior; Donald Johnston, business junior; John Simpson, business junior; Journalism junior; Baruch Fugate, engineering senior; Jay Ochs, engineering junior
Tony Pagadas, pharmacy junior; William Willett, college junior; Strainath maries, college junior; Robert Wolfe, journalism junior; John Kane, engineering junior; Dale Trott, engi-
Foreign Exchange Set for Saturday
A conference on the International education exchange will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union to make recommendations concerning the exchange program.
Panels will be organized to discuss the academic and social adjustment of foreign students to the University. They will include representatives of organized houses.
'Luck'-we all travel on the bus with out mascot, 'Thanatopsis,' a Slamese cat who belongs to trumpet man, Bobvy Nichols.
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When asked if he didn't find traveling with the band a little hectic, Mr. Hildinger said that 'nighters', as he calls touring, can be a rugged existence with little time for anything but eating, sleeping, and working "but working on location is fine."
Mr. Hildinger was very enthusiastic about the 12-tone contemporary composition for jazz band and symphony orchestra that the Finegan band premiered in Chicago.
"It's pretty disonant and the kind of thing you either like or hate," he explained. The band will play with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie hall in New York at the end of the month.
John E. Hankins, professor of English, will lecture on "The Origins of Shakespeare's Texts" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of Watson library.
Shakespeare's Works Lecture Feature
Prof. Hankins' lecture is being given in connection with the University Theatre production of William Shakespeare's "Richard III" Thursday through Saturday in Fraser theater.
'Y' Secretaries Attend Conference
Mr. and Mrs. William Allaway, secretaries of the YMCA and YWCA, attended the Allerton park conference at Park college last Monday. Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Deans of students and religious workers from 12 colleges explored their mutual responsibilities and ways of furthering interfaith cooperation on college campuses.
Three discussion groups were formed to discuss the areas of cooperation of religious activities on the campus, student counseling, and the coordination of agencies and programs of student religious activities.
Foreign Service Men To Hold Interviews
Representatives from the State department will arrive Thursday to talk with students interested in careers in the foreign service.
The department of state was recently reorganized and the foreign service extended to cover more than 2,300 additional positions. About 250 junior officers are to be appointed each year. The officers will be selected by competitive examination. The first examination will be in Kansas City, on June 24.
The students who want general information about the employment possibilities, types of service, and background needed for the foreign service are invited to meet with the representatives at 3 p.m. Thursday in Green.
Students who are interested in taking the examination are to contact Clifford P. Kezel, assistant professor of political science, today or tomorrow. They will meet the state representatives at 2 p.m. Thursday in Green auditorium.
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State YM-YW Meet Held at K-State
The Kansas YM-YWCA district conference was held at Kansas State Teachers' college at Pittsburg last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
The delegates from KU were Donald Pizinger, education sophomore; Peggy Whitney, graduate; Amy Kipp, college junior; Jane Ratcliff, education junior; William Allaway, general secretary of the YMCA, and Gary Jameson.
The findings of the national student council of the YM-YWCA were discussed, and Miss Fern Babcock, program coordinator for the council, conducted a workshop on program methods.
Ike to Use Ancient Clock
Washington—(U.P.)-President Elsenhower has moved into his office an orate clock which has been in the White House since the days of Ulysses S. Grant.
What young people are doing at General Electric
Young engineer is responsible for design analysis of $3,000,000 turbine-generators
The average large steam turbine-generator costs $3,000,000 and takes two years to build. It is one of the biggest pieces of electrical equipment made. Yet its thousands of parts are put together as carefully as a fine watch. Even a small change in design can affect the stresses and vibration of the turbine, and the way it performs. At General Electric, several men share the responsibility of predicting those effects before the turbine is built. One of them is 29-year-old E. E. Zwicky, Jr.
His job: analytical engineer
Here's what Ted Zwicky does. He takes a proposed mechanical design feature, describes it mathematically, breaks it down into digestible bits, modifies it, and feeds it to electronic computers. (It may take two months to set up a problem; the computers usually solve it in twenty minutes.) Then Zwicky takes the answers from the computers, translates and interprets them so they can be followed by design engineers.
This is a responsible job. Zwicky was readied for it in a careful program of development. Like Zwicky, each of our 23,000 collegegraduate employees is given a chance to find the work he does best and to realize his full potential. For General Electric believes this: When young minds are given freedom to make progress, everybody benefits—the individual, the company, and the country.
23,000 college graduates at General Electric