European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The High drama of designing a Bolt by Barnaby Feder new York times picture an Engineer hovering Over a Tab let in front of a display screen that looks like a Small television when the Engineer draws on the the drawing appears on the imagine the Engineer has drawn a with the help of a nearby the Engineer makes the drawing rotates it or alters punching a Lew More he tells a computer to assess the bolts the printout with a dissatisfied express the Engineer alters the fur the knowledgeable there is High drama the computer system has seeded the drafting of the design and dispensed with the Tim consuming task of building a prototype to test the the executive May not have heard of the computer i Sion the leading supplier of the costly or Many of its generally Young and Small he May not know that sales of the systems have tripled since but he can look at that Bolt and envision the same process applied to a a a virtually unheard of a decade computer aided design usually called cad has established itself As a key to the nations Industrial linked with its near computer aided or cad looks More and More like an Industrial Lifeboat in an Era where industries that cannot increase productivity seem doomed to drown in foreign the potential of this technology reduces one to Frank an analyst at Drexel Burnham to understand Why Kline and fellow analysts Are saying such consider what Irwin head of the manufacturing technology division at Arthur a research and consulting has to say about that Bolt instead of trying three design solutions for a an Engi Neer May have a computer try or you Are bound to end up with a better that better Bolt has awesome implications when spread across the Industrial map of the in the electronics it translates into astonishingly Small and powerful integrated it Means More fuel efficient in a wide variety of it Means minimizing materials and that is just the the hot test growth area during the rest Century is expected to be in applying the data and systems used in the design stage to or companies that Supply design systems Are working feverishly to extend their reach by developing systems that will do the follow ing v use product design data to design Industrial robots or other programmable machines that can build the v control inventory and automate Quality modify production line output automatically by switching to other products whenever warranted by changes in demand or the integration of the computer aided design stage with manufacturing will be the major thrust of the next few Krause and it is where theres going to be huge productivity non of this will come a Basic cad which is generally defined to include a Central processing four terminals for data input or and related software new York times Doug Bruce drawing appears on video display terminal of an Engineer designing by programs that define what the equipment can do and How to do costs anywhere from to the software and equipment now being developed to integrate design with manufacturing will drive total system costs into the whatever the Cost analysts expect a lot of Busi Nesses to come up with the necessary capital if the systems of the future can deliver the kind of 18month paybacks that have fuelled the growth of cad am suppliers in recent that growth has allowed cad am suppliers to triple to since according to Thomas a leading Industry analyst with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Kurlak and others foresee continued Industry growth at rates of 40 percent or More during at least the first half of this such projections have made the stocks of the publicly traded companies specializing in cad am Darlings of the High technology set on Wail despite a slowdown in new order growth in the face of interest rates Topping 20 the Industry compute vision of and second ranked a Plicon a neighbor in nearby finished 1980 trading at 40 to 50 times projected earn Ings for the a National epidemic by Fred Hechinger new York times school closings have turned into a nation wide As enrolments continue to local already under fiscal Rush to Board rent or sell surplus school the current estimate offered by educational facilities a nonprofit Agency that studies school is that by the end of the 1980s some schools May have been Only the Southern Sun Belt with its still growing population remains largely Una Frank Chancellor of the new York City school recently said the which has already closed 78 of its approximately 900 schools in the past five would have to eliminate another 14 in the near Prince Georges on the Periphery of washing last month projected the closing of 44 schools in the three years Massachusetts has closed several Hun dred schools in the last five Boston and Washington have each closed More than parents in great were contemplating demonstrations against a school closing for the most the abandonment of educational real estate appears to run into Little suggesting that Peoples minds Are on More immediate bread and butter Many school taking a longer View of the Are troubled by the Rush to get rid of surplus some Point to the possibility that enrolments May increase in the late when the children of the huge pos world War ii crop of babies enter More administrators deplore what they see As two particular opportunities the schools have passed the first would have been to build new coalitions with the rest of the Community by sharing the extra and the Cost of maintaining with senior citizen preschool preventive health and dental care for adult education programs and other Community in some instances of schools joining forces with other Community neighbourhood support for the schools is reported to have this is particularly True in aging where older residents often resent the Money spent on other Peoples in some people who attend senior citizen centers in schools have become valuable teaching vol and have remained supporters of the Public the second missed Opportunity would have been a nontraditional look at the conventional Wisdom that says Large schools Are preferable to Small because they offer a wider Choice of courses and Are More Cost efficient to this idea although comparative studies have Long shown that discipline problems and learning Retar Dation have tended to be less severe in at least in part because schools there Are it has been said that a school is too Large when the principal no longer knows the students by this May be a utopian but Many experts Are nevertheless convinced that elementary schools with Well Over pupils Are too Large and impersonal and that High schools with or More students Are not Only too impersonal but May also require far too Many administrative personnel and there is also such a thing As a school too Small to provide the full Range of the late James who studied the state of the High schools in recommended that no High school should have a graduating class of fewer than the the journal of the National association of secondary school recently published a Spe Cial spotlight on the smaller among its conclusions were that students in smaller schools become involved in a greater number and variety of activities assume a greater number of positions of responsibility and Are less the habit of bigness appears hard to current reports indicate that the general answer to reduced enrolments is simply to leaving the remaining schools As Large As schools had been during the fat under the the most constructive approach appears to be the conversion of schools to new and though mostly a report on abandoned school facilities in new eng land cities and towns cites such examples As an old school in known As the school has been converted into condominium apartments ranging in Price from to a school in has been turned into a a school in East has been converted into a 60bed health care a school in has been reopened As a 41 unit Structure of housing for the leaving one Wing As a Branch Library and gymnasium for Community it is in Large that school closings have created the most serious empty schools become instant victims of this not Only Means a loss of valuable property but often the destruction of the neighbourhood around the new York Tom Bloom music Man Thomson the discipline of Back Home in the Midwest by Tim Bryant United press International the word on pulitzer prize Winner Virgil Thomson was that he was a Tough sometimes snoozing instead of answering questions and coldly cutting off questioners who said something i take deadpanned the author and who turned 84 on thanksgiving his birthday was marked by Public broadcasting service stations 27 with a documentary on his career and although he lives in new York and has spent much of his life in Paris consorting with the likes of James Ernest Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Thomson Calls the Midwest and Kansas City in partic ular instead of viewing Bis interviewer with the round Little Man wearing a checked jacket was ebullient when speaking of his i love to breathe the Western the clean Missouri Thomson in a Kansas City he says the City combines cowboys and its a Well balanced growing up in the cites Midtown Section specific Al 27th and Wabash Thomson attended Central High school when it was located a nearby theater was a constant temptation and Thomson regularly at tended wednesday matinees when classes ended by age Thomson was considered a musical Prodigy and already had studied piano under the cites Best after High school and a stint in the Thomson headed for Harvard As an accomplished Musi he first visited Paris As a College student and returned to Cambridge Only after Harvard officials said he must if he wanted his Paris was the great Thomson you write music As if youre writing a and you dont judge your writing As you it was not so much what France gave but what it didst take on his return to Thomson Dove into a rigorous music education and to help finance his schooling became the organist at hugs Chapel in they didst Jeave Many weddings but lots of Fune Thomson says of the elderly but France became too great a lure to the Young Man full of his own musical with and a Promise of work writing essays on current music for vanity fair Thomson left for Paris where he said he preferred to starve where the food is he was a parisian off and on for the next 60 refusing to imitate other composers while becoming known for his own spare musical his most famous four saints in three was the result of a collaboration with Gertrude his Friendship with the famous author and her coterie of writers and thinkers introduced Thomson to a world of intellectuals if which he became a major a torrent of music flowed from Thomson bal unique musical portraits and film his score for the 1948 film Louisiana Story earned the Only pulitzer prize Ever awarded for such a he has guest conducted most major column of music criticism for the old new York Herald Tribune he wrote for 14 years beginning in 1940 gave Thomson almost As much or As his com thank you for your warmly indignant Thom son would respond in his own correspondence to he once criticized a playing of the National Anthem As logy and throughout his Thomson has maintained what he Calls the discipline of which he defines As the ability to let the mind Drift from one creative thought to every every Painter has to learn How to let it its a kind 01 self training of letting your mind he Over Celebration can kill any artistic save your mind for when you need give Thomson the name of a 20th Century Ameri can composer and the response is Charles Ives a Yale George Gershwin the commercial flavor is there but the music Leonard Bernstein he can do Hes the Only one of the american composers who has made the International big of is big time As Well but he says Ive never done anything that you encounter difficulties doing things you like but its not the same Page 14 the stars and stripes february the stars and stripes Page 15