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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1978
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United Press International
WASHINGTON - Industrial
uction, a key indication of over-
conomic health, rose 0 5 per-
n September. But production
Insumer goods remained slug-
l Federal Reserve Board
J Tuesday.
fte increase, identical to than in
rust, was consistent with the ad-
itration’s projection that the
)my will expand between 3^5
4 percent for the rest of the
Tht' biggest problem area con-
id to be the consumer sector
ere output increased by just 0.1
K nt, the slowest since June, the
Luction of consumer durable
[fell by 0.7 percent because of
lationwide strike by railroad
i which hindered automobile
iction, the board said. Produc-
lecreased 0.5 million from Au-
:o September.
lustrial production gains, a
ure of factory, mine and utility
ut, have remained steady in the
" 0.7 percent range since last
e — mostly due to strength in
lusiness equipment and con-
ion sectors.
is pattern held true in Sep-
ber. the board said, as business
iment output rose 0.6 percent
instruction increased by 0.4
at.
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No life on Mars
for earth bugs
United Press Internationa]
WASHmCTON — Concluding there is little or no chance for
earth hie to survive on Mars, a National Research Council committee
says there is no need to sterilize future spacecraft landing between
the planet s polar ice caps.
A NRC committee on planetary biology took a fresh look at the
eontamination risk posed to Mars by an unsterilized spacecraft from
earth and said the environment is too harsh for growth of terrestrial
bugs on frigid Martian deserts.
And the panel said the likelihood that an earth organism could
survive at the poles, where less is known about the conditions, "is
extremely low.”
But the committee said this does not rule out the possibility that
indigenous life forms may exist on Mars, or may have lived there
sometime in the past.
The limiting conditions for terrestrial life are not the limits for
conceivable life elsewhere,” the NRC panel said.
The study was made at the request of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration which has a present quarantine policy that calls
for sterilization of any spacecraft designed to land on Mars. NASA’s
Viking spacecraft which landed on Mars in 1976 provided the first
information on the surface environment.
None of this riew information suggests that the Martian surface is
less harsh to terrestrial micro-organisms than was thought prior to
Viking, the committee said in a report to the space agency.
On the other hand, the report said, two pieces of information
supplied by the Vikings indicate the Martian environment is more
severe than previously believed: a lack of detectable organic com
pounds in the soil and the presence of strong oxidizing compounds.
In addition, the Mars environment is very cold, very dry and sub
jected to deadly doses of solar radiation.
Our conclusion is that no terrestrial organism could grow under
the conditions found by Viking to prevail on sub-polar surfaces at the
landing sites and none could grow under the conditions that are
highly likely to prevail throughout the entire sub-polar regions,” the
report said.
“Few, if any, terrestrial organisms could grow in contact with even
one of the adverse conditions cited, much less grow when exposed to
all of them simultaneously,” the panel said.
What this all means, the committee told NASA, is that heat sterili
zation is no longer required for spacecraft landing gently in the areas
between the polar caps. The scientists said they would have no objec
tion to sterilization as long as it did not harm scientific equipment.
Architect drawing ‘errors’ costly
United Press International
NEW YORK — If one of an ar
chitect’s drawings of a valuable
building shrinks a quarter of an inch
or stretches that much, there could
be a $480,000 error in a 20-year
lease.
That could mean lost rent in the
case of shrinkage or a big overcharge
and perhaps an expensive lawsuit —
in the case of stretch.
Computer graphics can do much
to eliminate this hazard and also
save money and time in measuring
expense over the years in the man
agement of valuable properties, says
Lawrence Lerner, president of SLS
Environetics, Inc., of New York.
SLS Environetics is an architectural
firm that specializes in interior
planning and design by means of
computer graphics.
The quarter-inch shrinkage or
stretch of the paper on which plans
are drawn can produce an error of
two feet in 100 feet in each direction
if the drawing’s actual dimensions
are taken as a basis for space plan
ning and fixing the rent and costs,
Lerner said. The possible $480,000
error in charges either way caused
by the drawing distortion is based
on a yearly rental cost of $15 a
square foot.
But dimensions stored in a com
puter memory, once entered accu
rately, don’t shrink or stretch. They
can be retrieved at will and used to
plot new drawings and new plans on
the cathode screen that can be
printed out automatically.
Lerner said one of the big prob
lems in real estate management is
that often the original architectural
drawings of big buildings get lost.
As a result, either costly new physi
cal measurements must lie made
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!W YORK — Nothing seems to
pd like a policy of “hang the
se” if you’ve got a superior
let and the kind of personality
Titover, says Filippo Theodoli,
itb his wife, Katrin, makes
boats at Miami.
Magnum was developed orig-
|by Don Aronouw, the famous
i racing champion. Theodoli
the business from Aronouw
ars ago. Magnums sell for
0 to $780,000 and are re-
as the world’s most spectacu-
] speed boats. They are noted
pir strong hulls, fast engines
treat stability and maneu-
flity.
pously enough, Theodoli was
personally interested in rac
ing even though powerboat racing
first developed in his native Italy.
It was Italian racer-designers who
built the fastest hydroplanes, and in
the heyday of wooden boats, Italian
triple hull construction was the
epitome of quality. Magnums are
made of fiberglass and DuPont’s
Kevlar fiber.
Theodoli’s interest in the Mag
num grew out of his interest in naval
patrol craft. Scion of a Roman family
that traces its ancestry back to the
early Caesars, he graduated from
Italy’s naval academy and served in
patrol boats towards the end of
World War II
Since he is half American — his
mother was a member of the weal
thy Thaw family of Pittsburgh;
Harry K. Thaw, central figure of one
of the country’s most celebrated
jealousy murder cases, was his great
uncle — Theodoli got in the Ameri
can OSS service at the end of the
war and then came to the United
States.
“I worked at a variety of jobs but
gravitated into advertising and did
well at it,” he says. “In those days it
was hard for an Italian to get a per
manent visa to stay in this country
and become a citizen, but I finally
managed.”
Theodoli says he basically is a
businessman, leaving engineering
and design questions to specialists.
But his purpose is the same as
Aronouw’s, to build the finest
offshore power boats possible and to
the devil with expenses.
Magnums still are sold for racing
but Katrin and Filippo regard more
importantly the utilitarian users and
those who want Magnums for luxury
yachts. Magnums are capable of
speeds of 70 to 80 mph in a fairly
rough sea. That’s similar to 175 mph
on land.
Of the 760 Magnums now in use,
a handful are $780,000 53-footers.
These are owned by the royalty of
Spain, Sweden, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait and Panama and a few ex
tremely rich European commoners.
The Magnums that are sold to
navies, coast guards and to indus
trial and scientific customers and
some racing enthusiasts can cost
anywhere from $40,000 to $500,000.
“The whole secret,’’ Theodoli
says, “is that quality pays, no matter
how much it costs.
every time a long-term lease of sub
stantial space or a sale of the build
ing is negotiated or undependable
piece-meal drawings and calcula
tions must be relied on.
“It is amazing to discover to what
a great degree even the more
sophisticated real estate operators
and companies renting space or buy
ing buildings fail to employ fool
proof methods of measurement and
calculation,” Lerner said. “Often
the deal actually is based on an in
exact compromise between two sets
of measurements provided by buyer
and seller or landlord and prospec
tive tenant.”
The magnitude of the possibility
tor error was impressed on Lerner
when his company recently ob
tained a contract to prepare a pro
totype of a foolproof set of rental
plans for a huge building at 2
Broadway in Manhattan for Olympia
& York, the Toronto firm that
bought the $100 million holdings of
the Uris real estate empire.
“The structure is about as compli
cated as old-fashioned fancy Ger
man wedding cake and was built
under the pre-1960 Manhattan zon
ing code,” Lerner said.
SLS Environetics’ first task is to
use computer graphics and some
physical measurements to get an ab
solutely exact computation of the
total space, the rentable space and
the space devoted to elevator shafts,
stairways and other facilities which
must be prorated to the tenants. A
basic master plan for each floor must
be plotted on the screen and stored
in the computer.
SLS Environetics has developed
software that will enable a draftsman
using the cathode screen and these
new basic drawings, made automat
ically, to pinpoint any spot on the
floor to the thousandth of a foot.
This means computer graphics can
be used to plan re-assignments of
space and remodeling of floors at
great savings compared with con
ventional methods, Lerner said.
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