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T rans] By! AP N? It was a splendid ide that starts, stops and si with no help from the dj 1961. It worked. But the engineering > high, and the pouring apace, the old way. A f was torn up. The electronic highu shelf with other flashe feasible and likely to futuristic playground, possibility like comets ?Cars that fly or float < ?Helicopters in every filling the skies; ?Endless moving be about the city. AT ONE TIME m; everyday solutions to f] and comparable probl These were the drea had shown the force c entering bloom, when seem possible, when th shifted to energy crisis age of limits. But they cost too m weren't really what p< THE AUTOMATIC c starting and stopping < 1961 on a quarter-mi Princeton, N.J. The de work that paralleled t wav system. Why not Contract gi Four USC engin received a one year, tract from the U.S. Na an innovative compu i_ iji i _ wnicn wouiu neip mane qualified to fly. Robert Pettus, M.N. ] Stephens, and R.D. direct their efforts to simulators ? devices put pilots through trai ground. "Basically what we problem with time," 1 "A modern aircraft h 100 instruments which, is thrown into a nos example, all have simultaneously. It's ge simulator cnmnnter r that fast enough," he THE ENGINEERS \ to separate various #1 I jpvl. PI fgi Tuesday Bf Champag f/ Wednesday I Thursday ? Friday ? Hi Play Pool & B 1 824 Edmur tmmmmmammammmmam i portatio 'erry Kirkpatrick jwsfeatures Writer a: a fully automatic superhighw teers each car at 100 miles an he river. A full scale model was built nas still primitive, the cost seem of interstate highways proceed ew years ago the original test tre ray was put back on the laborat< s of inspiration that once appeal transform society overnight intc They soared into the realm , then faded from view: or glide on a cushion of air; garage, or on everyone's back, ; Its for sidewalks, whisking pec any people thought commonpls 1st tires, traffic jams, worn-out sh ems would be available. ms at mid-century, when world \ ?f technology, when electronics ^ i pconnmir arowth made anvth le American perspective had not , future shock, small is beautiful i uch, or proved too complicated, eople wanted after all. ars, guided by signals from the ro i safe distance apart, were teste* le track outside the RCA labs monstration followed seven yeari he beginning of the interstate hi make the whole thing automat ?News anted assignments withi "We'll then dei eers have computer that will $96,470 con- other machines u] vy to design formation in each c iter system said. ; pilots more Pettus said it u years or so," befo Huhns, L.M. system is put intc Bonnel will The system, when iward flight be used at the designed to Equipment Cente ning on ihe Fla., according to > have is a ApDOilll Pettus said. * m as probably rn^i if the plane Hi 11 e dive, for George D. Hain to react been appointed to itting so one Robinson Chair in :an t do all school of Law. Th< said. was made this wee vill attempt Day, dean of the 1 computer The Robinson Ch ^ Monday * Nite ? All B?er ny Backgammon Win *7 ? Ladles Nite ? FRII me Ladies Mixed Drin ? Budweiser Beer 5( *25.00 Pool Tournai USC Nite?10* Draft I ippy Hour Starts at Mi< ackgammon Upstairs a id Dr. Airport Highv n drea Some engineers pre each car route-pr ay automatically pullec >ur its power from the in The government i things. A good steei [?~ work continues on I controls, says Lyle S :clc at the Federal Hig people seem content would you start with % ones and build them rea } ? If the automatic ?* automatic sidewalk, every city a network here and there. suid THE MOVING sid airports and shoppii >ple speed. "You used to read Henderson, a staff sc ice organization that ha: oes know anyone who's e would be spectaculai VAT vas But if you increase ing safely? And in a do^ yet ween starting and s and "OUR CITIES arei or but streets," says H these pedestrian co mezzanine level. It Then there was th in when many people g 0f cars, a notion share flh_ bore their name: Sis "We all believed i uriejs? n the aircraft, honor of sign a master distinguis control all the of the & pdating the in- tributions >f them," Pettus used to standing 'ill take "three The ch, re the proposed David H > practical use. May. nnm nlatoH uri u Haimb V^VlliptV I.V/U , VYUi Navy Training from N< r in Orlando, School o Pettus. Yale Un has also tment ?' th? ternatio J Universi 30 and the ibaugh Jr. has Haimb i th David W. of ^aw > Law at the USC JP<? ; announcement lnt?rn?.' k by Richard E. ?nd re.g" aw school law of " ttW SCI1LHJ*. . . iair is named in J ,. fields. . I L"> -V "" Rec E $12 iks *1.50m $14 ,< V| $15 nant $17 1:30 Until ?' dnite IBM ? Daddy's j k..? /ay(21 5) m msmoi idicted as much within 15 ye ogrammed before a jouri I off at the right exit. The car1 road. 8 still paying for research ring system has been develc braking, merging and lane < axton, chief of systems and te hway Administration. But, 1 t with the roads we have, ar i the automatic one? Tear up i anew? road seems out, what at once thought an imminent poi of huge rubber bands scootin lewalks today are largely coi ig centers, most of them at a lot of wild speculation," sa ientist at SRI International, a i s studied people movers. "Bi ver studied the business who tl r, unless you could get the sp the speed, how do people get o wntown setting what about si topping points? n't built to make it easy to use enderson. "The best scheme nveyors from building to bu isn't a booming business." le grand helicopter vision of thought choppers would soor d by early pioneers whose cc mley Hiller, Igor Sikorsky, La that," Hiller says. "But it David W. Robinson, a >hed attorney and leader Duth Carolina Bar. Conj to the chair fund are attract and retain out scholars. air was formerly held by . Means, who retired in augh holds a J.D. degree arthwestern University f Law and a J.S.D. from iversity Law School. He completed advanced work Hague Academy of Innal Law, Georgetown ty, New York University, University of Miami. augh came to USC School n 1963. His teaching sub:lude Constitutional Law, -inrinl Inu/ intprnntinnnl .1V1IU1 ?M M | vv* Vkwaawia onal organizations and the nass communications. He tten extensively of these JANUARY iWBaMBilM'Mllttl'MllWKIfllWIHI'l SUITS SPORT j NOW Reg.? 5 *"$87.50 $55 5-$101.50 $80 10 $105 $85 0 $1 19 $90 ^hers Reduced Others 20% I 2 53 |i' 1 Saluda Ave. ^ MHBHnflHIMHnn red dowi ars, with abundantly clear in ney and not destined to re would get justification. The d garage is just that. . 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