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...like Wallace, began slipping away from his Commie cronies. California's Congressman Richard Nixon, scenting opportunity, decided to call him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and ask him a few questions. (Once before, when Whittaker Chambers named Pressman as a member of the same elite apparatus as Alger Hiss, Pressman had taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer Congressmen's questions...
Among the guns and fire-control apparatus of the after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs...
...above Socorro, a group of scientists thought it no impiety to see what could be done about changing New Mexico's weather. With a radar they searched the dark hearts of thunderclouds. Their potentiometers felt the pulse of lightning. They had a B-17 heavy-laden with strange apparatus, bristling with instruments like a flying porcupine. They had movie cameras, cylinders of butane and walkie-talkie radios...
...Knobs Know. The test range of Project Cyclone is a large room lined with tall, many-knobbed cabinets full of electronic apparatus. To simulate a missile, either actual or still-to-be-built, the knobs are set at positions corresponding to all of its characteristics. Some knobs take care of its air drag and the thrust of its rocket motor. Others express the action of its gyroscopic controls. Others account for the motion of its launching site (such as a naval vessel) and of its target (such as an enemy airplane...
...Needles. Omnirange uses "very high frequency," is static-free. It is complicated electronically, but it makes things simple for the pilot. Each omni sends out a radio signal that is different for each direction from the station. Receiving apparatus on the airplane detects the variation in the signal, and so tells the pilot where he is in relation to the station...