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During the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ winter hearing in December, Ernest L. Daman, senior vice president and director of research for Foster Wheeler Corporation, Livingston, N.J., was elected ASME president, effective June 1988. Daman joined Foster Wheeler in 1947 as an engineer in its research division, and became director of research in 1960. In 1976 he was elected chairman of the board of the Foster Wheeler Development Corporation. In the course of his research, Daman has developed steam generators for a demonstration plant of the liquid-metal fast-breeder reactor, an air pollution scheme for large power plants, a steam-gas turbine for naval ships, and fluidized bed combustion steam generators.

Daniel J. McCleese, former manager of the NASA and California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Atmospheric and Cometary Sciences Section, became manager of its Earth and Space Sciences Division in December. McCleese studied physics at...

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