Dec 1 1963
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Revision as of 19:32, 15 April 2009
Air Defense Command and FAA began combined operations in Great Falls Sage (Semi-automatic Ground Environment) Direction Center at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., the event marking a milestone in military and civil air traffic control. FAA'S new Great Falls Air Route Traffic Control Center makes use of ADC'S operational facilities, computers, long-range radars, and related equipment to provide air traffic control services to civil and military aircraft operating in about 135,000 sq. mi. of air space over Montana and North Dakota. (FAA Release 63-102)
RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff, addressing American Friends of the Hebrew University in New York, predicted vast scientific and technological developments in the years ahead that "are so fundamental that they will alter the very structure of society and compel each of us to readjust some of our traditional concepts . . . . "Modern man-especially the would-be leader in society-has to be a culturally integrated individual, familiar with the sciences as well as the humanities. There cannot be two isolated cultures for the simple reason that there is only one society in which to live. . . . "I would propose that scientific and cultural education begin with the earliest school years and extend without interruption through college and into the professional schools. Specifically, courses in the social sciences and humanities should be related to the physical sciences. It seems to me highly desirable that science itself should be studied as a social phenomenon because of the great impact it has upon society . . . ." .. scientific realities of tomorrow will surpass our vision of today. The great challenge before all of us is to make sure that the new knowledge and new instrumentalities shall be used constructively and not destructively. The powers of science and technology are neither good nor evil in themselves. Their capacity for good or evil lies in the use we make of them . . . ." (Text, CR, 12/4/63, 22087-89)
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