NASA engineer joins KU faculty
Benjamin Chereek has left the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a semester of teaching at the University of Kansas.
Chereek, who works in the Saturn 5 program at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., has joined the
faculty of the School of Engineering.
As chief of the Structures and Propulsion branch of the Systems and Engineering
Four eye Israeli job
By PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign News Analyst
Israelis now will keep one wary eye on the Arabs and another on the in-fighting among their own top politicians.
The death of Premier Levi Eshkol in the midst of the Arab-Israeli crisis pits three ambitious men against each other in the race to replace him, plus a woman, Mrs. Golda Meir,
Prof may start Japan program for journalists
A KU professor wants to establish an overseas internship program for journalism students interested in East Asian studies.
Grant K. Goodman, professor of history and chairman of the East Asian studies program, said he will stop in Japan before attending a March 10 conference on the development of Japanese studies in Southeast Asian universities at the University of Hong Kong.
The internship program would enable top journalism students with a double major in East Asian studies to work with wire services in Japan, or with Japanese English-language newspapers.
The program would give the advanced student an opportunity to work overseas and enlarge his knowledge of Japanese culture and language, Goodman said.
Language competence is the major qualification for participation, Goodman said. Other undergraduate intern programs have already been established in Japan and Taiwan, he said.
one-time Milwaukee school teacher and the most powerful woman in Israeli politics.
Mrs. Meir, former Israeli minister to Moscow, minister of labor and security and foreign minister, will be 71 in May, which makes her age against her and any appointment, if she wins it, a temporary expedient.
The men are acting Premier Yigal Allon, 50, who previously had served under Eshkol as deputy premier; Moshe Dayan, 53-year-old defense minister and hero of the 1956 and 1967 wars against the Arabs, and Pinhas Sapir, 63, minister without protfolio.
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On his mother's side, Allon traces his history in Palestine back to medieval times. Born in lower Galilee, he is the author of the Allon Plan for settling the occupied west bank of the River Jordan. He acted as Eshkol's spokesman during the latter's final illness.
dating back to the Israeli war for independence in 1948.
He also is a military hero,
He is regarded as a man of great talent, but without Dayan's popular appeal.
Dayan, easily identified by his eye patch, is classified as a hawk and a believer in tough talk to the Arabs. He foresees a long occupation but believes this is Israel's real chance to prove that Israelis and Palestine Arabs can live together.
Within security limitations, he would let the Arabs in the occupied areas run their own affairs and would count upon gradual economic integration with Israel, even though eventually they would go back to Arab rule.
Sapir, born in Poland in 1906, arrived as a farm laborer in Palestine in 1930 and is a part of the establishment which has ruled Israel for 20 years. He is politically the most powerful of the three and disagrees sharply with Dayan on integration of the Arabs.
keep a broad perspective," Chereek said, "to meet standards such as reliability, life expectancy and cost of the system."
Chereek, along with other NASA workers, acts as a consultant for Cape Kennedy during spaceflights. In certain instances, they have the power to recommend calling off a launch.
Management office, Chereek has worked with the Saturn 5 launch rocket since its beginning eight years ago.
Chereek began his space career in 1952 at the Army Rocket Ordinance Laboratory in Huntsville.
While at KU, Chereek teaches systems management, "to give a students an overall view of a system designed for a specific mission, such as a launch rocket," he explained.
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Praising the space program, Chereek said, "the program has provided technological breakthroughs in fields ranging from medicine to metallurgy, equipment contracts to companies which stimulate the economy, and research funds from NASA which stimulate research at universities."
"Persons who supervise the whole process are in short supply in this day of specialists," Chereek said. "Teachers in this new field are also scarce."
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His students will go into fields in which they might be assigned to lay out a radar or traffic system—even a space flight system.
Chereek, who instructs nine students studying for doctoral degrees in engineering, figures he spends 10 to 12 hours a day preparing for the three hours of class a week.
"The systems manager must
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