TECHNICAL TRENDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 29, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

WASHINGTON SCIENCE TRENDS
29 August 1966
Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP790018000100110008-7
Former CIA director, Adm. W.F. Raborn Jr., is back at Aerojet-General Corpor-
ation as vice president - general representative. His headquarters are at
the company's Washington office, 1120 Connecticut Ave. N.W. /// The Stn In-
ternr,tional Conference on Nondestructive Testing will be hold May 21-26, 1967
in Montreal, Canada. For information and/or advance registration forms, write
Jh International Conference on Nondestructive Testing, P.O. Box 95, Verdun,
Quebec, Canada. /// The.University of Wisconsin Electrical Engineering De-
partment reports that a new iterative-analog computer can simulate operating
conditions of a hydrofoil on water, indicating that the computer can be used
to dersirmn new hydrofoil control systems "with less cost and time" than by
traditional methods. //, A Symposium on Technology and World Trade is sched-
uled for Nov. 16 and 17 in conjunction with dedication of the National Bureau
of Standards' new $120 million facilities at Gaithersburg, Md. Commerce Sec
retary John Connor is sponsoring it. For further information, contact Robert
Stern, Chief, Office of Industrial Services, NBS, Washington, D.C. 20234.
/// Nathan Fine, mathematics professor at Pennsylvania State University, will
deliver the Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures at the Mathematical Association of
America meeting at Rutgers Aug. 29 - Sept. 1. His lectures, on "Basic Hyper-
g;eometric Series and Applications," will later be expanded and published in
a book by the American Mathematical Society. //k/ The Federal Aviation Agency
is reminding amateur rocket launchers that they are prohibited from firing
rockets into FAA controlled airspace, into clouds, within five miles of an
airport, at night, or within 1,500 ft. of any person or property not connected
with the launching. Full regulations are available from any FAA control tower,
flight service station or district office.
The 9th Mechanisms Conference of the ASME will be held Oct. 10-12 at Purdue
University, Lafayette, Ind. Write for programs or information to Machine De-
Division, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, United Engineer-
ing Center, 345 E. LF7th St., New York, N.Y. 10017. /// "Unavoidable delays in
uquipment procurement and building construction" have delayed until Dec. 1
tihe target date for transferring the services of NBS broadcast station WWV in
Greenbelt, Md. to Fort Collins, Colo. Inquiries should be directed to Direc-
tor, National Bureau of Standards, Attention: Broadcast. Services 251.02,
i.houldcr, Colo. 80302. //~/ Single copies of a new booklet, "An Improved Method
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for Ev limiting the Incendivity of Explosives to Coal Dust," RI 6815, are avail-
able free from Publications Distribution Section, Bureau of Mines, 4800 Forbes
Ave:, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213. /// U.S. Navy Ship Structure Committee reports
will now be available through the Defense Documentation Center or from Clear-
inghouse, U.S, Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va. 22151. They were for-
merly held by Secretary of the Navy.
D The Army's new Metrology Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. will be named in
'honor of the late Maj. Gen. John M. Cone, commanding general of the White
Sands Missile Range, N.M. at the time of his death. /// Single sets of 18
different test methods for vinyl dispersions are available free from The Soci-
ety of the Plastics Industry, Inc., 250 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. ///
ESSA now lends support to the folk claim that you can predict bad weather by
the way your arthritis is acting up. According to H.E. Landsberg, director
of ESSA's Environmental Data Service, falling atmospheric pressure and rising
humidity can cause pains and swelling of joints in rheumatoid arthritis. ///
Col. Henry Mazur is the new chief of the U.S. Strike Command's System Program
Office for the Electronic Systems Division of the AF Systems Command at L.G.
Hanscom Field, Mass. He replaces Col. Donald Bowr7 now commander of the Elec-
tronic Systems Divisions Detachment 11 at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
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