Draft of the first part of a biographical sketch of Theodor Billroth, "the most famous surgeon of the nineteenth century" describing his personal life, ideas, and musical friendships.

Within the past two years Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) has been associated directly or indirectly with several documents in which the authors set forth their concept of a wind component gust model. In this paper three models, each representing a somewhat different concept, are reviewed. A gust model can be defined as a mathematical model that begins by describing wind fluctuations in terms of discrete events and ends by defining statistics of those events. In the present models, all wind fluctuation is described in terms of either individual wind components with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system at a single point, or volume averages of these wind components.

Article describes Will Rogers' promotion of advancements in American aviation after his trip to Europe through an examination of the commentary in his journal articles and the state of commercial aviation in the United States.

In any complex system, the interesting problems occur at the interface of dissimilar subsystems. Control of the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF) begins with the US Congress, which controls the dollars, which control the people, who control the nine top-level minicomputers, which control the 65 microprocessors, which control the hardware that controls the physics experiment. There are many interesting boundaries across which control must pass, and the one that this paper addresses is the man-machine one. For the MFTF, the man-machine interface consists of a system of seven control consoles, each allowing one operator to communicate with one minicomputer. These consoles are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and both hardware and software were designed in a top-down fashion. This paper describes the requirements and the design of the console system as a whole, as well as the design and operation of the hardware and software of each console, and examines the possible form of a future man-machine interface.

Necrology section from Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 1979. It includes a document honoring Harve Milt Phillips, former life member and member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Article describes the history of Girl Scouting in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Lynda M. Sturdevant discusses the formation of the Girl Scout Council and the many volunteer projects carried out under their leadership, which included tree and flower planting, drives and projects, and making cookies for the troops during World War II.

Article discusses the results of the 1893 land run after the opening of lands on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation, including the difficulties settlers faced. Michael H. Reggio describes how the poor crop yields, pests, droughts, and lack of transportation impacted the lives of homesteaders.

Article provides an account by Francena Lavinia Martin Sutton, one of a party of five women and three children who journeyed to Arkansas in the midst of the Civil War. Sutton relates struggles they faced on the road and interactions with Choctaws, who hosted them when they wandered into Indian Territory.

This essay presents elements of the processes used in the fuel cycle steps and gives an indication of the types of equipment used. The amounts of radioactivity released in normal operation of the processes are indicated and related to radiation doses. Types and costs of equipment or processes required to lower these radioactivity releases are in some cases suggested. Mining and milling, conversion of uranium concentrate to UF/sub 6/, uranium isotope separation, LWR fuel fabrication, fuel reprocessing, transportation, and waste management are covered in this essay. 40 figures, 34 tables. (DLC)

Individual abstracts were prepared for 19 of the papers in these proceedings. The remaining two have already been cited in ERA, and may be located by reference to the entry CONF-790834-- in the Report Number Index. (RWR)

Separate abstracts are included for each of the papers presented concerning training issues; staffing and training; construction and maintenance training; skills training; and simulator use.

One hundred and sixteen papers are included. One was abstracted previously. Separate entries were prepared for the remaining papers. (MHR)