LAGOS Sterling silver and eighteen karat gold from the Caviar® Collection ) 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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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 - 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." West Bloomfield Plaza • (810) 8S1-6340 COMMISSION. FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF JEWISH HISTORY Founders/Sponsors: Walter & Lea Field 119