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The sky has no limits nor is sound a barrier to the
world's great developers of space vehicles and
supersonic flight. Among those blazing paths into such
domains are engineers and scientists who are world-
renowned or unsung heroes of Jewish origins. Two
stand out.
U.S. Jews Rally
For IDF Soldiers
New York (JTA) — Ten years af-
ter Capt. Ron Arad disappeared
in Lebanon, American Jews rah
lied for an international effort to
secure the Israeli airman's re-
lease.
Mr. Arad's plane was shot
", down over Lebanon on Oct. 16,
1986, and there have been vary-
ing reports over the past decade
about his captors and where he
was being held.
Israel believes he is still alive.
Several thousand demonstra-
tors attended the rally at Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza opposite the
United Nations, according to its
principal organizer, the Confer-
ence of Presidents of Major Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations.
The rally also called attention
to the fate of three other missing
Israeli soldiers, Staff Sgt. Zvi Feld-
man, Sgt. Yehuda Katz and Sgt.
Zachary Baumel, who were cap-
tured in June 1982, during a Syr-
ian-Israeli tank battle in
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
The alleged captors have not
allowed the International Com-
mittee of the Red Cross to visit the
soldiers and have not confirmed
whether the four MIAs are in
their possession. Both Iran and
Syria, which are believed to have
influence over the groups that
may be holding the four Israelis,
have not been forthcoming with
information.
Commemoration
In Czech Town
Prague (JTA) — A small Czech
town that once housed one of the
largest Jewish communities in the
region celebrated the 300th an-
niversary of its synagogue.
Czech political and religious
leaders joined British, Israeli and
Czech Jews to mark the anniver-
sary of the dilapidated temple in
Kolin, a central Bohemian town
east of Prague that the Germans
settled in the 13th century and
plundered during World War II.
Some 200 to 400 guests visited
the renowned cathedral of St.
Bartholomew and the town's two
Jewish cemeteries.
They also attended a com-
memorative ceremony in the syn-
agogue, which featured the
presence of Torah scrolls brought
from a London synagogue.
After World War II, the British
temple inherited the Torah scrolls
from Kolin's ruined synagogue
and also the decorative arch from
the town's Jewish cemetery.
About 20 Holocaust survivors
attended the event, including a
handful who once lived in Kolin.
One of them, Hana Greenfield,
described the event as "very
poignant. There has not been a
service in that synagogue in over
50_vears."
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THEODORE VON KARMAN
(1881-1963) b. Budapest, Hungary
Aerodynamic Engineer A crater on
the moon bearing his name honors
a founder of aeronautical and astro-
nautical science and a pioneering
leader of America's aerospace in-
dustry. The child prodigy in mathematics was early
drawn to engineering. While still a university student
he evolved the Karman Vortex Street, a classic
principal defining the vibration of structures under
aerodynamic stress--a springboard to his lasting
contributions to supersonic flight and rocket propulsion.
In Austria during World War I, the budding visionary
supervised the design of the world's first helicopter that
successfully lifted and hovered.
Fleeing the Nazi threat in 1930, he accepted
directorship of the Guggenheim Aeronautical
Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, a
mecca for students and colleagues who shared his
dreams of supersonic flight and rocket travel. The
inspiring teacher also researched new materials from
which to build airframes. In 1940 he designed
prototypes of today's solid-propellant rocket engines for
long-range missiles. A founder of the Aerojet
Engineering Company and the U.S. Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences in 1932, the internationally
respected engineer was presented with our nation's first
National Medal of Science by President John F.
Kennedy in 1963.
ARYE SHTERNFELD
b. Sieradz, Poland
(1905-82)
Aerospace Engineer He was one of
the unheralded "chief constructors"
of Russian space vehicles, the
mathematician and engineer who
among other accomplishments plot-
ted the 1955 flight of Mechta, the first Soviet sputnik.
The science of astronautics in the U.S.S.R. owed much
to his inventive genius which was earlier nurtured as a
graduate mechanical engineer from a French university.
Several years later he wrote An Introduction to
Cosmonautics, a prodigious work which preceded his
permanent settlement in the Soviet Union in 1935.
While working tirelessly with Russian
counterparts in designing planetary probes, satellites
and spaceships, he authored other important books on
the theory and practice of space exploration: Flight
Through the Cosmos, Artificial Earth Satellites and
Interplanetary Travel. Only recently have such Jewish
contributions to Soviet and world science been justly
credited and recognized.
Saul Stadtmauer
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In a related admission, U.S.S.R. Premier
Nikita Khrushchev informed a news conference held
during his 1959 U.S. visit, "A single honor for
Russia's launching of its first rocket, Lunik II, to the
moon goes to the Jews of Russia."
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