Rapacki

The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, had signed off on the mission after conferring with the Polish foreign minister, Adam Rapacki; Mr. Brezhnev viewed Moscow’s involvement in the conflict, providing arms and aid to Hanoi, as an increasing distraction.

“We don’t like to fumble things, either, believe me,” said Fredric Ellis, the founder of Ellis & Rapacki, a litigation firm in Boston.

Currently, forklifts use laser-based sensors that can cost $5,000 apiece and can scan only a single plane, Rapacki says.

Rapacki says that Kinect cameras could help forklift operators avoid accidents.

Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw.