University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. V
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27,1965
No. 15
JERK WITH ROMAN TWIST—Toga-clad high school students shown jerking in the Grill were among 1,200 Latin students on
Summer Trojan Photo by Rodger Shimatsu
campus recently for the Junior Classical League Convention. Among their activities was a Roman banquet in the Coliseum.
STUDY LOCAL GOVERNMENT
16 Venezuelan Officials Begin Public Administration Course
The second group of elected local government officials from Venezuela arrived Sunday to participate in a special summer program offered by the School of Public Administration.
Similar to a program held the first of this summer and to the 1964 inaugural program, the second phase of the 1965 effort will provide a three-week orientation and study of local government organization and administration in the United States.
Included will be introductory lectures and explanatory dis-! cussions of the United States system of government followed by on-site visits to city, county, and other governmental agencies. The second group of 16 Venezuelans began its I program Monday and will vis-! it the “host city” (Inglewood), j Glendale, and Covina.
Serving as the host city, Inglewood will provide a more I intensive look at a total city, including citizen participation I in local government, study of
USC Doctor Measures A thletes' Barrel- Chests
Are track stars barrel-chested?
A School of Medicine physician says “NO" to this old myth, but adds that American track stars have broader chests than their Russian counterparts.
Dr. Samuel A. W e i s m a n, USC emeritus associate clinical professor of medicine, last year measured chest development, height, and weight of Russian and American track and field stars during the Dual Track and Field Meet in Los Angeles and recently published his findings in “California Medicine.”
He found the Americans “relatively broader-chested, taller, lighter in weight, and about
two and a half years younger” than their Russian counterparts.
Dr. Weisman’s statistics on the United States group indicate that “American athletes are developing relatively broader, flatter chests and are growing taller.”
The USC physician arrived at this finding by comparing his 1964 statistics with measurements he made of 98 track stars who participated in the 1940 National Collegiate Athletic Association Field and Track Meet held in Minneapolis and 120 participants in the NCAA Track and Field Meeting held in Los Angeles in 1949.
the roles of elected city coun-cilmen and appointed city administrators, and a view of the organization and functions of the various city departments.
Covina was the host city for the first group of 17 Venezuelans who were here in July.
Mayor’s Invitation The League of California Cities will play an important role, representative of an organization dedicated to the improvement of local government.
At the invitation of USC, Mayor Oscar Yaeger and City Administrator Neil Goedhard of Covina, and Mayor William Gordike and City Administrator Allen B. Stephenson of Inglewood, and Don Benningho-ven of the League of California Cities visited Venezuela to meet with participants in last year’s program and those who will be coming this year.
Two in Venezuela Two faculty members of USCs School of Public Administration, Dr. Richard W. Gable and Paul H. Wangsness, were in Venezuela to obtain additional information on Venezuelan local government and to discuss the program with Venezuelan officials and officials of the Creole Foundation and the Agency for International Development.
These two agencies jointly sponsored the program last year and asked USC to conduct the 1965 session.
Firm Donates TV Computer
Beckman Instruments. Inc., has given an $80,000 Model 420 digital computer to the Communications Systems Laboratory at USC’s School of Engineering. Installation of the computer has just been completed in I SC’s Olin Hall of Engineering. The new computer will be used initially in a project aimed at developing .
a more efficient television sys- 'W	• _
tem — a system which would t
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transmit pictures over long distances with little power.
Dr. William Kenneth Pratt, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is directing the project.
Transmits From Mars Digital codes must be used to transmit pictures from such far away places as Mars or the Moon. These are called “on-off" codes because the picture is transmitted as a sequence of impulses. The impulses are coded as ones and zeroes, Dr Pratt explained.
A computer is then used to translate these series of received impulses into an actual picture. The Mariner IV program used this type of system. Dr. Irving Reed, professor of electrical engineering noted.
The new Beckman 420 computer will be used in a similar but more efficient coding and
Soviet premier A. N. Kosygin is compared with Communist party chief L. I. Brezhnev and Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan in the current issue of “Communist Affairs,” bi-monthly review published by USC’s Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda.
Kosygin’s biography. a three-part study, was written by the late Charles Malamuth, former senior research associate of the institute who is decoding process. Dr. Reed memorialized in this issue of
said.
Performs Complex Routines
The Beckman 420 is a fixed point, binary, single address computer which handles vast amounts of real-time data continuously and efficiently.
A powerful command list, together with a flexible indirect addressing capability — including cyclic indirect address and a flexible system of interrupts —allows the computer to perform complex routines at high speed.
Summer Trojan Ends With Today's Edition
The Summer Trojan will cease publication with this issue, Editor Mary Garber has announced.
The staff of the Daily Trojan will begin preparation for the special orientation issue scheduled for September 11.
The student newspaper will resume regular daily publication September 21.
Next year’s Daily Trojan staff includes Miss Garber, editor, Rodger Shimatsu,' managing editor, Steve Harris, city editor, Greg O’Brien, editorial director, Joe Tethe-row, feature editor, Ruth Rosenshine, society editor, and Terry Bales and Steve Harvey, sports editors.
“Communist Affairs.” Malamuth. one of the world's leading scholars in the study of Soviet communism, died Juiy 13.
Written Biognjphi**^,
Malamuth. a co-editor of “Communist Affairs.” earlier had written biographies of Brezhnev. Kosygin and other leading Soviet personalities for the journal. In response to numerous requests, the biography of Kosygin will be reprinted in booklet form, and made available to interested scholars and libraries by the Research Institute.
Commenting on the relative positions of the three Soviet leaders. Malamuth wrote that “speculations concerning Brezhnev’s political predominance are mere guesswork for lack of hard evidence. Men as different in character and temperament as Brezhnev and Kosygin are as likely to complement as to irritate each other.”
Background Article
“The Dynamics of Communism in Malaysia” is the background article in the same issue of “Communist Affairs.” j The article, by Justus M. van : der Kroef. professor and chairman of the Department of Political Science. University of Bridgeport, and presently research associate at the Institute on Communism, Columbia University, anticipates the present turmoil in Malaysia.