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REHEARSING. Television director Sidney Galanty rehearses CWO Henry D. Arrott in a scene on the safe handling of acids used to
fuel the Corporal missile. Closed-circuit TV could put this scene and others in military classrooms over the country
Army to Try Teaching Missile Course by TV On April 7, starting at 9:25 A.M., the U.S. Army will transmit a one-hour television course in missiles—the longest such transmission (in miles covered) the Army has ever made. If the TV course proves successful, it might be the beginning of the Army's role as teacher of missile know-how in military classrooms all over the nation. Receiving the orientation course in missiles by closed-circuit TV that spring morning will be cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; ROTC students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; and cadets at the Royal Canadian Military Academy at Kingston, Ont. This will be the first time that T%# s*nKiTDm en/Mi T L , . A . TV CONTROL ROOM. Through master control room of television studios at Army's missile school will go TV course to West Point, MIT, and Royal Canadian Military Academy 50
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TEACHING AID. TelePrompters help the Army's missile teachers to stay on their assigned subject matter during programing. On TV monitor is course being televised
Missile school will beam one-hour course to West Point, MIT, Canadian Military Academy A professional TV production team with 17 cameras and five mobile TV units will take the viewers into the classrooms, labs, and missile sites of the Army Ordnance Guided Missile School at Huntsville, Ala. The students will study the missiles on a giant (20 feet by 12 feet) screen. The seven year-old school offers more than 60 resident courses—from four to 18 months—on phases of the seven missile systems now used by the U.S. and its allies. The 1500 members of the staff and faculty have trained about 20,000 missile technicians from the U.S. armed forces and 12 foreign nations. Closed-circuit TV has been used by the school since late in 1958 to transmit a two-hour course on preventive maintenance to the Army's Armor
School at Fort Knox, Ky. The Army points out that the video course not only avoids duplication of teachers and equipment at the two schools, but allows the classes to go instantly to missile sites to study some component, then return to their classrooms without losing time. Another advantage of television training, says the Army, is that small missile components, which no more than one student at a time could study, can be blown up on the giant screens for study by audiences of any size. The Army says that video tape has been a valuable tool in recording intricate missile repair operations for instant transmission on TV. To train students in a foreign nation, a second audio channel in that country's language can be dubbed on the tape.
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KEEP YOUR PLANT DESERT-DRY WITHLECTRODRYERS —It's like taking your plant to the desert if you eliminate unwanted moisture with Lectrodryers. Controls work smoothly and dependably when instruments are fed dry, clean air. Processes stay on the beam and product quality is consistently high, when the air, gases or organic liquids involved are dry. Desert dryness in warehouses safeguards products stored there. Lectrodryers dry to dewpoints below -110°F.—in volumes of a few cubic feet or thousands per hour. Operation can be fully automatic or manually controlled. Quite likely, there are standard units to suit your needs, or we can recommend special equipment. For this help, write Pittsburgh Lectrodryer Division, McGraw-Edison Company, 305 32nd St., Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
BRIEFS A visiting scholar program, supported by the Robert A. Welch Foundation, is designed to bring highly qualified scientists into Texas colleges and universities for a semester or academic year. Object of the program: to stimulate and encourage activity in basic chemical research. Stipends for scholars will range from $12,000 to $20,000 depending on the qualifications and experience of the nominees. Nominations for appointments starting in September 1960 close on April 15 and those to start in February 1961, on Sept. 15.
The U.S. Public Health Service establishes a grants-in-aid program for postgraduate training in control of community air pollution. Stipends for 12 months: postdoctoral level, $4800; postmaster level, $3600; and postbachelor $3000. All stipends carry additional allowances for tuition and fees, dependents, and travel. Applications may be obtained from the regional offices of PHS or from the Chief, Division of General Health Services, Bureau of State Services, Public Health Service, Washington 25, D.C.
The National Council of University Research Administrators is a new organization of top research executives of universities formed to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and information on research policies in universities. Dr. Raymond Ewell, vicechancellor for research, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., is first national chairman of the group.
Career opportunities in the pulp and paper industry are described in a brochure just issued by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. TAPPI, 360 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y., will furnish copies of the 36-page booklet on request.
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A new cooperative program between the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory is the subject of a booklet, "Opportunities for Graduate Studies in Forest Products." Copies may be obtained from Dr. Edward G. Locke, director, U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison 5, Wis.
