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Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr.
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
i1a,,h i-ngton, . D.C.
To be diplomatically correct, I suppose my salu-
tation should be "Dear Mr. Director," and hence-
forth, my future correspondence will display the
1,roper amount of respect for your new position.
towever, this first official communique to you
i_. written in the typical California fashion,
since you know from your own experience that we
are casual folks out here. Things have piled
up for me the past two months--as I know they
have for you--so consequently, I have not had
the opportunity to congratulate you properly on
your new appointment. I am sincere when I say
4--hat the country is lucky to have you in this
'-.remendously important position.
At about the time President Johnson was announc-
i-ng your appointment, Bert Holloway and John
Canaday at Lockheed were announcing mine. I have
joined McCann-Erickson as Account Director over
the world-wide advertising activities of Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation. This, of course, includes
producing your favorite radio program, "The Lock-
heed Digest". Incidentally, you can hear the
"Diggest" in Washington every morning over WGMS
at "1: 3 5 am.
The thought has now occurred to me that perhaps
You would like to have copies of the "Digest"
Scripts to feed into your technic,l intelligence
q tfher.ing section. For the past three years I
tbt:l.ve been sending scripts to the Mutual Defense
e'c,nt.rol staff at the Department of State' r :ere
-tain of your personnel review them for infor-
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Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr. -2- May 6, 1965
mation relative to the enforcement of the Battle
Act. On my last trip to Washington, I held a
meeting at State and they advised me that the
scripts have been very beneficial to them in the
pursuit of gathering science and technology in-
tLelligence.
And finally, I would like to have five minutes of
your time while I am in Washington next week in
order to extend a personal invitation from Debbie
Reynolds and Donald O'Connor. They would like for
you to be guest of honor at a charity ball we
are producing on October 3 here in Los Angeles,
and I would like to give you some information
about this very worthwhile activity. I know
that time is of the essence to you and I will
certainly understand if you cannot see me when I
,-inm there. I will call your office early Monday
-Lo see if you have any time open on Monday or
:'uesdav. I will be staying at the new Hilton
Hotel
Once again, I would like to extend to you my
sincerest congratulations on your new job. I
look forward to working with you on the numerous
+-nrojects which are bound to cross our paths.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Dellinger
Account Director
P.S. This letter replaces an earlier ones today
which went out with an incorrect address and
the wrong hotel. It's just been one of those
days.
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Monday, May 10, 1965
Los Angeles, KFI, 6.55 a.m.
Washington, WGMS, 7.35 a.m.
Houston, KTRH, 7.45 a.m.
Huntsville, WFIX, 7.15 a.m.
Dayton, WAVI, 7.25 a.m.
Boston, WCRB, 7.25 a.m.
Norfolk, TArVBC, 7.30 a.m.
Good morning. This is Orval Anderson with the Lockheed
Digest, covering todayts happenings in the world of science and
engineering.
On the barren coast of northwest Australia, the U.S. Navy is
building a gigantic ultra-low frequency radio station for
communications with submarines in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The
dominant feature, the central tower, is nearly thirteen hundred feet
high. A ring of six other towers reach twelve hundred feet and another
outer ring of towers are a thousand feet high. Cables connect all the
towers to give it the appearance of a six-pointed star.
Tall towers are needed to communicate with submerged
submarines, and it takes tremendous power to slam the messages through
on extremely low frequencies.
/////inIhile submarines can receive on low frequency, they have
to surface to transmit, on normal higher frequency radio. So the
Australian site will have extra-high frequency facilities, too.////-/
(BUSINESS WEEK, April 17, p. 146
Speaking of submarines, MISSILE/SPACE DAILY reports the Navy
will build a small nuclear-powered submarine for exploration of the
ocean bottom. It will be about sixty feet long and carry a crew of six,
(April 20, p. 291)
And while we are still in the ocean area, Lockheed-California
Company has finished the giant hydrofoils or sea legs for the three
hundred-ton Navy ship now under construction, and it has released some
pictures and statistics. The hydrofoil is twenty-five feet tall and
weighs seven tons. The winglike foil at the bottom has a span of
thirteen and one half feet. In operation, the foils will remain below
the water surface. There will be three hydrofoils, located on the sides
and aft of the vessel, and they will be retractable so that the ship
can also travel in a conventional mode. The hydrofiol ship itself,
two hundred twenty feet long, will be built by Lockheed Shipbuilding
and Construction Company of Seattle. (LOCKHEED RELEASE)
A fuel injection system which is said to increase the output
of the typical family car engine by fourteen percent, and at the same
time reduce gasoline consumption by ten percent, has been developed in
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England. According to MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, the system is
inexpensive enough to be used as original equipment on all types of
family cars. It is also equally suitable for gas-engined trucks. The
same components are used in engines from fifty horsepower to three
hundred fifty horsepower. (April, p. 71)
Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Space Technology Laboratories has
developed an extremely simple space engine consisting of two concentric
cylinders. The inner one contains radioactive polonium-210. When
gaseous hydrogen is supplied to the annular space, it becomes heated
by the inner cylinder, accelerates, and comes out of a nozzle with a
thrust of one-quarter pound. According to STL, the principle could be
used for deep-space missions, Flight range would be limited only by
the amount of hydrogen carried. (RELEASE)
According to George DeGroat, West Coast Editor of AMERICAN
MACHINIST, the two-mile long linear accelerator at Stanford is being
built to almost impossible tolerances. The forty-foot sections of
brazed-together disks and cylinders must line up to within one
millimeter on outside dimensions; certain Internal dimensions must
align within fifty millionths. (April 12, p. 65)
The latest in portable voting machines is a briefcase-size
machine which weighs only six pounds. It was initially proposed by
Dr. J. P. Harris, professor emeritus of political science at the
University of California, and now is produced by IBM as the Votamatic.
A card used with the table-top unit is adaptable to all
elections and has up to two hundred forty voting positions per ballot.
/////The principle of punching entries directly into cards
also has wide potential for commercial and educational applications,
for example tabulating of surveys and tests./////
(PRODUCT ENGINEERING, April 26, p. 45)
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Tuesday, May 11, 1965
Los Angeles, KFI, 6.55 a.m.
Washington, WGMS, 7.35 a.m.
Houston, KTRH, 7.45 a.m.
Huntsville, WFIX, 7.15 a.m.
Dayton, WAVI, 7.25 a.m.
Boston, WCRB, 7,25 a.m.
Norfolk, WVBC, 7,30 a.m.
Good morning. This is Orval Anderson with the Lockheed
Digest, covering today's happenings in the world of science and
engineering.
University of Wisconsin scientists have reported a major
breakthrough in genetics. They have duplicated in the test tube the
mechanism by which the genetic material -- DNA -- carries out its main
function. The work, in effect, closes the ring of intense
investigation by hundreds of scientists throughout the world, which
began when the Watson-Crick model for DNA was postulated in 1953.
The triumph is the result of more than a decade of work at
the University of Wisconsin Institute for Enzyme Research, and was
directed by H. Gobind Khorana. (UNIV OF WIS RELEASE)
A research team of biologists and chemists at Indiana
University feels it is near the solution of the basic chemical mysteries
which surround the regulation of powerful body hormones. They have
turned up clues to the mechanism of the entire hormone-producing
endocrine system. The work of William Breneman, professor of zoology
and Marvin Carmack, professor of chemistry, involved a long and
difficult study of a mysterious plant substance called Lithspermum
ruderale, which has been used by Indians of the Western United States
as a contraceptive.
Their laboratory tests showed this substance has a powerful
inhibitory effect on hormones, particularly hormones involved in the
master controlling mechanisms of the living body. (IU RELEASE)
It is now possible to measure the pulse and breathing rate of
an astronaut in space, or for that matter a hospital bed patient,
without connecting any instruments to the subject's body. The procedure
is to place the subject between two sensing antennae so that his body
is in an electromagnetic field.
It was developed by William A. Shafer, M.D., of the Life
Sciences section at the Convair Division of General Dynamics
Corporation, and was demonstrated at the thirty-sixth annual meeting
of the Aerospace Medical Association. (CONVAIR RELEASE)
Lasers continue to make news. According to NEW SCIENTIST
Magazine, an experimental laser rangefinder measures heights up to a
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thousand feet with an accuracy of five feet or better. It was
developed by the Ministry of Defense, Services Electronics Research
Laboratory, Baldock, Hertfordshire, England. (April 1, p. 33)
Researchers at General Telephone and Electronics Laboratories
report they have developed the first liquid laser which works at room
temperature. Their next step is to develop a practical liquid laser
which emits light continuously and not just in pulses.. Such a
continuous laser in theory could carry more than one hundred thousand
telephone channels simultaneously, or more than one hundred sixty
television programs. (RELEASE)
The idea of wheel-less transportation has intrigued engineers
for many years, says MATERIALS IN DESIGN ENGINEERING Magazine. Most
concepts to date have been air-supported vehicles. Now, however,
engineers at Westinghouse Electric Corporation have come up with a
system which would float a vehicle magnetically, and drive it with an
electric motor that has no rotating parts. Thus, the magnetic highway
would take over the two basic functions of the wheel in transportation
systems -- supporting the vehicle, and transmitting the power to make
it move.
/////The magnetic suspension system requires magnets that are
magnetically strong for extended periods of time. New ferrite permanen
magnets meet these requirements, and have been selected for an
experimental application.///// (April, p. 25)
Engineers at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have
made a working model of a "wireless" motor. It runs on microwave
energy at a frequency of three thousand magacycles a second.
Basically, it is a direct current motor run by rectified
microwave energy which is obtained from an aerial tuned to the power
supply's frequency.
/////A loop aerial picks up the microwave energy, which is
then rectified and fed to a rotor coil placed in a d.c. magnetic
field./////
/////The loop is mounted on a forty-five degree plane with
respect to the axis of rotation, an innovation which allows the aerial
to cut itself off from the microwave energy field periodically, giving
a self-commutating effect.///// (PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE
OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERS, Vol. 52, p. 1380)
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Good morning. This is Orval Anderson with the Lockheed
Digest, a program bringing you five minutes of todayrs news in the
world of science and engineering.
The latest animal hero of the space age is a South American
squirrel monkey. Researchers at the University of Kentucky will study
the effects of gravitational forces on the small primates, in a long
series of tests on a large, spiral centrifuge. A system has been
worked out so the monkeys will be rewarded with bits of food when they
push lever. It is expected they will learn to trip the levers which
not only provide food but also the level of gravity which is most
comfortable for them. (UNIVERSITY OF KY RELEASE)
According to ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS Magazine, a new
experiment will hedge against the possibility that the Surveyor
spacecraft may not secure the necessary data on the lunar surface. It
reports NASA has awarded a study contract to Aeronautronic Division of
Philco Corporation for research and preliminary design of a lunar
penetrometer, to be carried by the Apollo spacecraft. The penetrometer
can be ejected from an Apollo spacecraft while it is orbiting the moon.
Then the probe will fall on the lunar surface to measure hardness,
penetrability, and bearing strength. (April, p. 97)
The April issue of ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, by the way,
is devoted to the Apollo project. It is titled "Apollo Midstream".
AVIATION WEEK reports that NASA is considering placing several
large letters and numbers on the ground at two sites during an upcoming
Gemini flight. The experiment is designed to test the visual acuity
of the crew. (April 19, p. 23)
After two firings of a million-pounds thrust, and three
hydrostatic tests to operational internal pressures, the cases for the
one hundred fifty-six inch rocket motors show no signs of deterioration.
And this, says Robert F. Hurt, president of Lockheed Propulsion Company,
demonstrates the great strength and toughness of maraging steel.
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In addition to having great strength, maraging steel also has
excellent properties of ductility. It can be fabricated easily, and
it needs no conventional heat treatment..
An important advantage for rocket motor applications is the
material's excellent notch toughness, or resistance to crack
propagation. Also, maraging steel has good dimensional stability and
lends itself readily to welding, machining and cold working.
/////The particular steel used in the Lockheed motor cases
contains eighteen percent nickel, eight percent cobalt, four and one
half percent molybdenum. It also has aluminum and titanium hardeners.
///// (LOCKHEED RELEASE)
A tip of the Digest hat this morning to the Franklin Institute
of Philadelphia. The Institute has packaged a road show called
Expeditions in Science", and it has been seen by more than forty
thousand Pennsylvania school children since last December,
(FRANKLIN RELEASE)
The mobile service structure for the Apollo-Saturn Five will
have a super lightweight structure. It will be made of Aircomb, the
high-strength, low-weight honeycomb developed by Douglas Aircraft
Company. /////Aircomb will be used for all the work stations and
enclosures of the structure.///// The size of the structure, by the
way, is four hundred two feet tall, and the base one hundred thirty
feet by one hundred thirty-three feet.///// (DOUGLAS RELEASE)
Astronomers from Cornell University's giant radio telescope at
Aerecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected a smooth region on Mars, which
happens to coincide with a visible dark area. Radar reflections from
this dark region in Mars' northern hemisphere could come from a watery
aera of some kind, perhaps marshy with vegetation, says Dr. Gordon
Pettengill, associate director of the observatory. /////That is an
interesting speculation since other scientists have suggested that
the dark regions become dark with seasonal changes, and that, they
say, is evidence of life of some kind.///// (CORNELL RELEASE)
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Thursday, May 13, 1965
Los Angeles, KFI, 6.55 a.m.
Washington, WGMS, 7.35 a.m.
Houston, KTRH, 7.45 a.m.
Huntsville, WFIX, 7.15 a.m.
Dayton, WAVI, 7.25 a.m.
Boston, WCRB, 7.25 a.m.
Norfolk, WVBC, 7.30 a.m.
Good morning. This is Orval Anderson with the Lockheed
Digest, bringing you the latest news from the world of engineering and
science.
An interesting summary of the Magnetosphere is written by
Laurence J. Cahill, Jr_., associate professor of physics at the
University of New Hampshire. Since 1958, he writes in SCIENTIFIC
AMERICAN, direct measurements of the outer reaches of the earth's field
by satellites and rocket probes have convinced many geophysicists that
the once simple picture of the earth's magnetic field must be
drastically revised. It not only is not free of external influences,
but is buffeted continuously by a wind of electrically charged particleE
emanating from the sun. It is distorted by electric currents
circulating in the radiation belts that girdle the earth. And it is
possibly modified still further by a variable interplanetary field.
The net result of all these influences is a geomagnetic field
shaped somewhat like a teardrop, with a tremendously elongated tail.
Instead of extending outward indefinitely, the geomagnetic field
appears to be confined to a definite volume of space called the
magnetosphere, and it is surrounded by a fluctuating but discrete
boundary layer called the magnetopause.
/////Analysis of data provided by the satellite measurements
has progressed to the stage where broad outlines of the magnetosphere
can be mapped with reasonable accuracy. Meanwhile, theorists have
constructed different working models to account for the complex
interactions which take place.///// (SCI AM April, p. 58)
Stanford University radar astronomers have been studying the
solar wind that helps shape the magnetosphere into that teardrop with
a long tail. And they report the surprising discovery that twenty
times more electrons can be found drifting in the terrestrial lee of
the solar wind than in its seething mainstream. (STANFORD RELEASE)
George P. Cressman, director of the Office of National
Meteorological Services, U. S. Weather Bureau, writes in SCIENCE
Magazine that the application of higher mathematics to weather
prediction has greatly improved forecasts.. Over the past decade, he
says, forecasts have leaned heavily on mathematical models and
numerical calculations about energy distribution and motions in the
atmosphere. Our present limitations, he says, are mainly the result
of an incomplete atmospheric model. (Vol. 148, Nr. 3668, p. 319)
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One of the leading meteorologists working with mathematical
models of the atmosphere is Yale Mintz, professor of meteorology at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Mintz has designed a
compromise numerical model which includes most of the earth's and the
atmosphere's broad features, including the land, mountains, and oceans.
But it excludes the stratosphere and it highly simplifies the process
of water vapor condensation and evaporation.
His model started out with an imaginary windless and
motionless atmosphere, whose temperatures and pressures were the same
at all points. Then, Dr. Mintz turned on the sun. As the simulated
atmosphere began to heat up, temperature differences developed, and
the air began to move. Gradually, the model's temperatures, pressures,
and wind distributions took on most of the large-scale characteristics
of the real atmosphere.
Although he considers his model a crude one, it already has
come up with significant results. It has successfully simulated the
jet streams and polar front cyclones, the trade winds, the mean
Siberian high and Icelandic and Aleutian low pressure centers, and
other characteristics of the earth's weather and climate.
Radio astronomers listening to distant galaxies have the
same problem that is faced by optical astronomers -- too much
distortion from the earth's atmosphere. Optical astronomers are solving,
the problem by rocketing television cameras and telescopes into space.
And now, radio astronomers are preparing to take the same
approach. In two years they will lift into a thirty-seven hundred
mile high circular orbit a solar-powered transceiver. /////It will
have an X-shaped antenna about five times the length of a football
field.//// (ELECTRONICS; April 19, p. 34)
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Friday, May 14, 1965
Los Angeles, KFI, 6.55 a.m.
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Huntsville, WFIX, 7.15 a.m.
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Boston, WCRB, 7.25 a.m.
Norfolk, WVBC, 7.30 a.m.
Good morning. This is Orval Anderson with the Lockheed
Digest, bringing you a brief review of science and engineering news.
An old-fashioned metal has scored a space-age comeback.
According to Boeing Company engineers, the best metal to use in building
manned spacecraft may be the metal widely used by aircraft manufacturers
-- aluminum. It proved better pound-for-pound at stopping high speed
pellets than other more exotic and expensive space-age materials. The
pellets, ranging from pinhead-size to pea-size, were fired in
laboratory tests at speeds up to twenty-two thousand miles an hour.
(BOEING RELEASE)
Another application of aluminum in space work has been made
by Litton Industries, for NASA's Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. It
is a metal space suit, designed to provide protection and also mobility
for astronauts working outside the spacecraft. The suit is made of
.030 gauge aluminum over a foam-filled honeycomb core.. A constant
volume design allows the use of rolling convolute joints, and they
result in lower resistance to movement in the pressurized state.
/////Tests using a range of internal gas pressures have shown good
flexibility of the joints and unusually low leakage rates./////
(BIOASTRONAUTICS REPORT, 4/15/65, p. 55)
One final note on aluminum. Avco has developed a process for
creating expandable structures that will retain their shape after loss
of inflating pressure, and aluminum foil is the basic material. Shapes
are fabricated by seam bonding two identical flat patterns of aluminum
foil and inflating the assembly to a wall stress slightly above the
allowable yield of the foil. /////Potential applications are space
structures, solar collectors, antennas, and portable lightweight
shelters.///// (MISSILE/SPACE DAILY, April 21, P. 304)
Lockheed-California Company engineers are studying a rotor
system for a heavy-lift Army helicopter. The turbine-powered
helicopter the Army has in mind could travel empty a distance of
twenty-two hundred miles without refueling. As a heavy-lift vehicle,
it could carry a payload from twelve tons to twenty tons, operating as
a cargo hauler or as a flying crane.
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Lockheed engineers will determine the rotor system
characteristics which best meet the design and mission requirements of
such a powerful vertical takeoff and landing machine. (LOCKHEED RELEASE)
Another common material getting more attention from
technologists today is cement. From Japan comes word that methyl
cellulose has been added to concrete, greatly increasing its flexibilit3
and strength. (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, April 12, 1965, p. 88)
The U. S. Army Engineers, Research and Development
Laboratories, has used short nylon fibers to increase the impact and
shatter resistance of Portland cement. Even when present in only a
percent or two, the nylon fibers increased impact resistance more than
twenty times. Other fibers like polypropylene, polyethylene, and saran
also reinforced the strength. (MODERN PLASTICS, April, p. 156
USA ERDL Technical Report
1757-TR)
A number of different methods for transforming solar energy
into usable power were discussed at a recent meeting of the Solar
Energy Society in Phoenix. The Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is working on what it calls an
advanced solar turbo electric concept. Equipment includes a solar
collector, a heat receiver, energy conversion devices, and a radiator.
The University of Wisconsin is working on a system for
concentrating solar energy in order to boost the output of solar cells.
Thermionic converters also are being developed for utilization
of solar energy in space. /////Thermo Electron Engineering Corporation
of Waltham, Massachusetts, has designed sealed solar modular converters
which operate in space or air when coupled to a suitable solar collector
and heat rejector.///// (CHEMICAL WEEK, April 10, p. 83)
Under-turf heating, already a research subject in England and
Sweden, is now being studied for a football field at Purdue University.
Cables providing heat inputs from less than one to ten watts per square
foot of turf area have been buried below test plots on the University's
practice football field. Heat from the buried cables has kept the
soil frost-free and it has melted snow, and stimulated root and leaf
growth in the grass. /////To reduce the risk of mechanical damage to
the cables, they should be placed six inches below the surface,
researchers discovered.///// (USDA Agricultural Research,
Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 12)
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