Miscellany

Astronaut Frank Borman, who orbited the moon on time, couldn't make it for his panel session at the October meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Hanover. Because of fog, well known to the natives, he was an hour late by commercial flight. "We had to make three approaches to the Lebanon airport," he said, "and I'm still nervous."

Bill Koenig, Dartmouth's senior quarterback, is good with numbers on and off the field. He developed four computer programs used by the Department of Anthropology to retrieve and correlate data on 1200 different cultures, and as the result he is cowinner of the first John G. Kemeny Prize for Computing.

Eight Japanese government and business leaders, including three members of the Japanese Diet, made a three-day visit to Dartmouth last month to study the College's time-sharing educational and research computing programs. One of the Diet members was Toshihiro Kennoki, former Japanese Minister of Education, who was so impressed not only with the computer program but with the College in general that he said, on departure, that he planned to use Dartmouth as a blueprint for a recommended "ideal Japanese university." Mr. Kennoki has been charged by Prime Minister Sato to submit recommendations on the form and program for a new university that might serve as a model in that country.