Apr 2 1967
From The Space Library
One-inch-diameter hollow steel spheres for use in aerospace ball-bearing assemblies were being tested at Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB. Hollow spheres were half as heavy and equally as strong as solid ones currently used, had longer life expectancy, and could easily be mass produced. (AFSC Release 44.67)
April 2-5: National Assn. of Broadcasters held 45th annual convention in Chicago. FCC Chairman Rosel H. Hyde strongly urged that U.S. commercial broadcasters support a system of public television and suggested that the broadcasters establish a national committee to aid noncommercial TV: "As diverse as our present commercial broadcasting system is, there is room for innovation, for more diversity, in short, for a viable, supplemental noncommercial service. Such a service could provide a further and differently based competitive spur to the commercial system. It would provide a place where new ideas and experimental techniques could more easily be tested. . . ." (Dallos, NYT, 4/5/67, 78)
ComSatCorp Chairman James McCormack termed "nonsense" a charge by the Ford Foundation that ComSatCorp was threatening to become a monopoly: "Comsat, far from being an evil octopus, is a youngster trying very hard to employ private funds and private initiative to . . . maintain the leadership granted to us, under extraordinary complete regulation, to the benefit of the United States and the world more generally. . . ." Restating the corporation's position that there should be one all-purpose domestic communications system, McCormack asserted that ComSatCorp, as a representative of U.S. communications policy, was in best position to establish such a system. "We calculate that a multipurpose system will, from the beginning, provide broadcast transmission services at less cost than will a single-purpose system [and] initial costs will continue to reduce over the years," affording a great deal of flexibility and security. (Text; Dallos, NYT, 4/6/67,67; Reddig, W Star, 4/6/67)
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