Memorandum to House Speaker Carl Albert

Memorandum to Speaker of the House of Representatives Carl Albert from Theodore Sorensen with proposed plans for a scenario where Speaker Albert succeeded to the presidency. Albert requested the memo amid the intensifying Watergate scandal and Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. After Agnew’s resignation on October 10, 1973, Albert was first in the line of presidential succession.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1004/thumbnail.jp

Law: The Most Powerful Alternative to War

The single greatest enemy of law is war. I refer not merely to the history of foreign dictatorships where repression is tightened still further at a time of military conflict. No, I refer also, sad to say, to the painful experience of our own country. Legal tradition gave way to military pressure. But cannot law be employed as the single most powerful alternative to war? That is the supreme challenge to your generation of lawyers, if it is not already too late

Vernon Smith's Insomnia and the Dawn of Economics as Experimental Science

This is a commentary on Vernon Smith's contributions to experimental economicsexperimental economics, auctions, public goods, markets, Vernon Smith, ultimatum game, dictator games

Hitchhiker capabilities

A carrier system has been developed for economical and quick response flight of small attached payloads on the space shuttle. Hitchhiker can accommodate up to 750 lb of customer payloads in canisters or mounted to an exposed side-mount plate, or up to 1200 lb mounted on a cross-bay structure. The carrier connects to the orbiter's electrical systems and provides up to six customers with standard electrical services including power, real time telemetry and commands. A transparent data and command system concept is employed to allow the customer to easily use his own ground support equipment and personnel to control his payload during integration and flight operations. A general description of the Hitchhiker program and the Shuttle Payload of Opportunity Carrier (SPOC) is given and future enhancements are outlined

Benefit-Cost in a Benevolent Society

How should benefit-cost analysis account for the value that benevolent individuals place on other people's pleasure from public goods? When adding up the benefits to be compared with costs, should we sum the private valuations, the altruistic valuations, or something else? This paper proposes a partial answer, along with some suggestions for benefit-cost practitioners.benefit-cost, contingent valuation, altruism

Physical/chemical closed-loop water-recycling

Water needs, water sources, and means for recycling water are examined in terms appropriate to the water quality requirements of a small crew and spacecraft intended for long duration exploration missions. Inorganic, organic, and biological hazards are estimated for waste water sources. Sensitivities to these hazards for human uses are estimated. The water recycling processes considered are humidity condensation, carbon dioxide reduction, waste oxidation, distillation, reverse osmosis, pervaporation, electrodialysis, ion exchange, carbon sorption, and electrochemical oxidation. Limitations and applications of these processes are evaluated in terms of water quality objectives. Computerized simulation of some of these chemical processes is examined. Recommendations are made for development of new water recycling technology and improvement of existing technology for near term application to life support systems for humans in space. The technological developments are equally applicable to water needs on Earth, in regions where extensive water recycling is needed or where advanced water treatment is essential to meet EPA health standards