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BOWLING-BALL BRAIN is held by o scientist. Placed inside
the sleek rocket, brain will check conditions 120 miles up.
Scientists Make 'Brain'
Size of a Bowling Ball
To Chart High Altitudes
By JOHN F. BEMBOWEK
ANN ARBOR, Mich. The
forerunner of the electronic
‘'brain,” often mentioned in
connection with forecasts of
the first man-made satellites,
may already exist here at the
University of Michigan where
scientists are building sleek
needle-nosed rockets for the
Defense Department.
Michigan’s “brain,” which is
to be carried more Shan 130
miles above the earth, is about
the sise of a bowling ball, and
therefore naturally may be of
a “lower order” than the first*
brains for the satellites which
usually are spoken of as being
about as big as a basketball
The principle is the same,
however, the aluminum
spheres which an “passen
gers” for the test rockets an
jammed full of electronic
equipment, and as they fall
will radio back Information on
such things as the nte of
descent, air density and tem
perature, and cosmic rays.
Elaborate ground equipment
will record on film and win
tape the data eollacted and
transmitted by the robot dur
ing the precious seconds when
it is falling to destruction.
The rocket which carries it
up automatically opens at
peak altitude and releases the
“brain.”
Although these rockets'
maximum height is consider
ably below what will be neces
sary for a true satellite in a
perpetual orbit, scientists and
military men expect to get
valuable Information on air
temperatures and density at
various levels, and to be able
to relate it to storms, solar
activity, magnetic fields and
other baffling phenomena.
Geophysicol Year Role
Unless something more elab
orate comes along, scientists
expect these rockets with
• their “rudimentary electronic
brains” to play a significant
role in the fact-gathering of
the 1957-8 International Geo
physical Year, when scientists
around the world are going to
make their most concerted and
co-ordinated effort to solve
some of the mysteries of the
earth as a planet.
Several members of the team
of rocket scientists here have
been scouting the area near ,
Fort Churchill in Manitoba.
Canada, in preparation /or
building the launching sites
there.
The rockets now being made
are sent to the National Ad
visory Committee for Aeronau
tics proving ground at Wal
lop’s Island, Va. It is warned
that their gleaming exteriors
could stir additional rumors of
flying saucers on their flights
into the upper atmosphere.
(In Washington, a spokes
man for the National Advis
ory Committee for Aeronau
tics confirmed that the Uni
versity of Michigan projectile
would be shot off at Wallop's
Island.
(This island, the NACA
spokesman said, is located
south of Chincoteague Island,
on the Atlantic side of the Del
marva Peninsula. It is about
eight miles long and varies in
width from one-half to one
mile. A former Navy installa
tion, it was turned over to
NACA in 1945 and is now
used exclusively by that agency.
(NACA’s Wallop’s Island fa
cility specializes in shooting
“aerodynamic shapes”- These
are extremely accurate small
scale models of projected air
craft. Rigged to rockets and
fired into the air. their per
formance and Efficiency can be
checked by observers on the
ground.
(One of the shapes tested
at Wallop's Island, the NACA
revealed last week, was the so
called “coke bottle” fuselage,
which was announced recent
ly as a startling new develop
ment in aerodynamics.
(Most of the models used at
Wallop’s Island are made at
the Air Force’s Langley Air
Force Base, near Old Point
Comfort, Va. Occasionally, at
defense Department request,
the Wallop's Island facility is
made available to non-govern
mental agencies such as the
University of Michigan, the
NACA said.
(About 75 persons, mainly
technicians, are regularly sta
tioned at Wallop’s Island.
They' shoot off the missiles
and tend the tracking devices
which get information from
the flying test models. Data
collected on these shots are
then taken to Langley Field
for correlation and study.)
Before being shipped, the
, completed units pass their
first tests here by being
fastened to heavy weights and
dropped several feet to simu
late the acceleration which
will be hundreds of times their
own weight in the subsequent
flights to high altitudes.
Since future space travelers
may have to absorb such pun
ishment, the scientists are
learning a good deal about the
strains and stresses of rocket
travel from the tests them
selves.
Rocket Shots in Virginia
At Wallop’s Island the
rockets will be carried to
high altitudes by booster units
from antiaircraft missiles,
and then will continue the
rest of the way under their
v own power. The rockets are
expendable after releasing the
“brain” for its free fall, and
disintegrate in the process.
They look like miniatures
of the space ships which some
scientists predict will cruise
into outer regions within this
generation. They stand eight
feet tall and because of their
aluminum construction weigh
only 220 pounds.
The plan is for them to
take over the work now being
attempted by heavier and
more elaborate models costing
seven times as much, and by
introducing low-cost construc
tion into rocket building they
have added significance in
helping to-usher in the rocket
age.
Leslie M. Jones, supervisor
of the UM Engineering Re
search Institute project, esti
mates that the newer rockets
can be built, equipped,
launched and their findings
analyzed for 915,000 apiece,
Instead of the SIOO,OOO it now
« costs the Government to do
this.
All but the propulsion units
of the rockets are built by the
laboratory technicians here.
Into the pointed nose goes an
electronic beacon to reflect
radar beams used by ground
observers to track the flight
of the rockets.
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MARYLAND
Politicos See
Mahoney as
Man to Beat
By GENE GOODWIN
Although this may come as
a shock to some, George P.
Mahoney is at this moment the
unmistakable front-runner in
early maneuvering for the
Democratic nomination to the
United States Senate from
Maryland next year.
That, at least, is the definite
impression I got from conver
sations with young Democratic
leaders from all parts of the
State at their Ocean City con
vention last week end.
I asked 32 of them privately
to specify the person they
thought should be the Demo
cratic candidate for Senator
next year. (The primary is in
May, the general election in
November.)
, Only two shied away from
answering this ticklish ques
tion.
Os the 30 Who did answer,
14 said they thought the nomi
nation should go to Mr. Ma
honey, who was defeated for
the Senate by Republican J.
Glenn Beall in 1952 and twice
for Governor in the Democratic
primaries of 1950 and 1954.
The other 16 answers were
scattered among eight names.
Tydings Mentioned
Three favored former Sen
ator Millard E. Tydings, who
seems to be held in much
higher regard nationally than
at home.
Three young Democrats
said they believed the sena
torial candidate should be
Representative George H. Fal
lon, who has represented Bal
timore city’s 4th district in
the House since 1944.
A Fallon backer from the
Eastern Shore paid him one
of the Shore's highest com
pliments when he -sa id:
“George is one of the few city
boys that us country boys can
accept.”
Philip B. Perlman, former
United States solicitor gen
eral, was favored by two dele
gates to the Young Demo
cratic convention.
Two others gave the nod to
Clarence J. Miles, president
of the Baltimore Orioles base
ball team who seems to be
campaigning as hard as Mr.
Mahoney but not as effect
tively
One vote went for former
Gov. W. Preston Lane, jr., but
the voter lamented accurately,
"I don’t think he's interested.”
'Frosh‘ Face' Urged
Four delegates said the
Democrats ought to put up a
“fresh face.” When pressed
for suggestions, the names of
three members of the House of
Delegates were mentioned—
Daniel B. Brewster of Balti
more County, Jerome Robinson
of Baltimore City, and Blair
Lee IU of Montgomery County.
The 30th answer in (he poll
was negative. “Anybody but
Miles,” the questioned delegate
replied. “I can’t stand a party
jumper.”
His reference was to Mr.
Miles’ support of Gen. Eisen
hower in the 1952 campaign.
Anybody who would make
any wagers on the basis of this
unscientific poll, of course, is
a candidate for the psychiatric
ward, but it is an Interesting
indication of a changing atti
tude towards Mr. Mahoney.
The wealthy Baltimore pav
ing contractor has been the
Peck’s Bad Boy of his party
since his first outing against
Mr. Lane five years ago. In his
persistent ambition to gain
high office, Mr. Mahoney has
badly split the party in the
three primary battles he has
waged and some blame him for
Democratic defeats in the
State.
Why then are so many
Democrats now ready to for
give and forget?
The explanation most often
heard is that by sending Mr.
Mahoney to Washington for
six years—thus getting him out
of circulation—the Democrats
can unite once again and re
gain the Governorship and all
the patronage that goes with
it In 1958
It also is argued by older
Mahonefltes that their man
has earned a free ride, because
the party’s so-called Old Guard
has failed either to stop him
or defeat the G. O. P.
There still are some influen
tial Democrats, of course, who
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have not bought the "move
Mahoney upstairs” idea, and
it is understood that they are
trying to agree on a candidate.
It is from this group that
Mr. Tydings or Mr. Fallon or
one of the others mentioned
possibly could draw enough
support to defeat Mr. Mahoney
in the May primary. But there
would only be room for one
major candidate besides Mr.
Mahoney. Some of those now
In line are going to have to sit
down.
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Ireland Looks Hopefully
Toward U. S. for Capitol
By JOHN M. ROBBON
The Republic of Inland,
faced with the sad fact that
it is many yean behind in
developing its industrial po
tential, has launched a cam
paign to enlist foreign—
mainly United States—help In
a modern-day industrial rev
olution.
Primarily an agricultural
country.. Ireland Is in serious
economic straits because it
cannot make for export as big
a volume of finished products
as it has to import to live.
The result is that Inland
finds it extnmely difficult to
support its 3 million popula
tion. The country is losing its
young people at an alarming
rate. They go over to Eng
land, where then is plenty of
work in busy faotories.
To keep Ireland from be
coming a nation of old folks
—and poor old folks at that
—the Costello government
has been studying the na
tional balance sheet, trying
to dope out a solution.
Ireland's export- import
balance sheet shows this bad
news: In the first six months
of 1955, Imports from the
United States totaled $23.1
million. Exports to the ÜBA
totaled less than $3.8 million.
This is a deficit of nearly S2O
million. That is the problem.
Development Needed
Ireland thinks the solution
is an Industrial development
program. The man in charge
ia William Norton, Ireland’s
Minister for Industry and
Commerce. Hit attack on the
problem has two aspects:
• Feel out governments and
leading manufacturers around
the world for possible Interest
in investing both capital and
technical skills in Irish in
dustry.
• Broaden Ireland’s industrial
control laws so foreign in
vestors can make a satisfactory
profit. -
. The search for prospective
Investors began last spring. A
delegation was sent to Sweden
to attempt to interest manu
facturers in Irish enterprises.
Soon thereafter a new leather
industry—staffed with Swedish
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SWPAT. limXM« IS. ISSS
technicians—was established
in County Kerry. '
Within the nejpt two months
Mr. Norton will send another
delegation to now-prosperous
West Germany. Britain al
ready has been invited to take
part in the program.
To give his plan impetus.
Mr. Norton will come to the
United States early next year
to talk to prospects here. He
already has one Irish-Ameri
can venture in the bag.
Late thjs year this newly
organized company, located in
Ireland, will place on the
United States market a new
type Irish whiskey, adapted to
what Irishmen hope is the
"American taste.”
The first order, placed re
cently for 15,000 cases, Is spual
to the whole yearly export to
the United States of the reg
ular Irish pot still whiskey.
But .what Ireland really
needs, the Irish Embassy here
says, is a bit of the Ameri
can "know how” whe>e heav
ier industry is concerned.
Along that line, the Irish al
ready are succeeding.
The Ford Motor Co. is well
established in Ireland. IU
output of cars is sold mainly
in Ireland and Great Britain.
The Irish are in particular
need of light engineering prod
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pets such "as farm machinery,
lead and copper piping, plumb
ing supplies and washing ma
chines. The republic would
jump at any reasonable op
portunity to develop its min
eral deposits.
Lows Are Eased
Much already has been done
to make Irish law easier on
foreign Investors.
At the top of ,the list to
Mr. Norton’s willingness to
Waive provisions of the Con
trol of Manufacturers Act—
under which 51 per cent of
the capital investment must
be held by Irish nationals—by
offering special permits that
would assure controlling own
ership to American, German
and British firms establishing
projects in Ireland.
For foreign manufacturer*
establishing industries in Ire
land’s undeveloped areas, the
Irish government offers grants
toward getting started.
Dividends; interest and prof
its on all investments made
by resident* of tire United
States may be transferred to
America in dollars. Capital
and its appreciation may bo
repatriated at any time.
The Irish also argue that
their labor supply and ideal
factory sites cannot be beat.

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