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JMES Readers The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Metallkunde is interested in receiving decorative and artistically appealing micrographs (color only), to be reproduced on a 1986 DGM calendar. For further information contact: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Metallkunde Ev, Adenauerallee 21, D-6370 Oberursel/Taunus; or telephone: 06171/4081. A patent has been awarded to a trio of researchers from the National Bureau of Standards, The Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Army for the new design of a dosimeter, which can be used to make remote measurements of radiation to an accuracy of 5 percent. For more information contact: Michael Baum, NBS, (301) 921-3181. A new weights and measures training test has been published by the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). The first of 36 to be written and published during the next 6 years, the text is designed to provide states with the material needed to conduct training programs. Introduction to Electronic Weighing and Measuring Systems, is available for $25.00 prepaid from NCWM, P.O. Box 3137, Gaithersburg, MD 20878; telephone: (301) 921-3181. Former employees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which became the nucleus of NASA in 1958 will hold their third reunion in Cleveland, OH, 6-8 September 1985. For further information send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: NACA Reunion Committee, NASA Lewis Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, MS 60-1, Cleveland, OH 44135. Dr. Joseph Lindmayer, founder of Solarex Corporation and Monegon Ltd. has announced the formation of Quantex Corporation. The new high technology company will engage in the development and application of new and novel approaches to solar and light energy, including solar-to-storage conversion of sun-generated electricity, fuel generation (solar-to-fuel) by illumination of special electrodes under liquid, and luminescence to store light and emit on command. Fafnir Bearing Division of Textron, Inc., announces the acquisition of Argosy Bearings, Ltd. of Texdale, Ontario, Canada. Argosy, who manufactures unground ball bearings in single and double row types, as well as a variety of custom design configurations, will operate as part of the Fafnir Bearing Division of Textron Canada, Ltd. James J. Mitchell and Clarence L. Griffin have been promoted to Vice Presidents of PT Components, Inc. They will continue respectively as Division Managers of the Link-Belt Bearing Division in Indianapolis and the Stearns Division in Milwaukee. Walter Baturka has been elected President and Chief Executive Officer of SKF Industries. Baturka joined SKF in 1978 and was elected Executive Vice president in 1984.

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VOL. 7, NO. 1, JUNE 1985

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