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...ancient pseudo-science of chiromancy. Doctors Alfred R. Hale, John H. Phillips and George E. Burch examined the palm prints of 287 patients, half of whom had congenital heart defects and the other half heart disease acquired later in life. They knew that myriads of tiny creases called axial tri-radii are formed in the palm during the first four or five months of fetal development and, like fingerprints, remain unchanged for life. (These intricate patterns bear no relationship to the impermanent palm lines gypsies call heart, head and life lines.) What the doctors suspected was that disturbances that cause...
...story, however, your hypoxic staffer was understandably carried away by overexposure to so much brass in such rarefied atmosphere. The good greying admiral never could have done a "snap roll" tied to another plane's wing. Slow roll yes, but a snap roll is an axial roll involving a partial stall, and were you to try this maneuver tied wing-to-wing with another fly machine, you would experience a feeling of togetherness which you would never get over. J. SHELDON LEWIS Chief Pilot...
...next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even if he loses to Snodgrass, he can have the $52,500 he had already won. "Completely fair," said Bloomgarden, and stiffened his axial skeleton, from cervical to coccygeal vertebrae, for a return to battle...
...television station will broadcast on a closed circuit. From the studio, 2000 feet of co-axial cable carry the program to the dormitories...
...axial-flow engine draws in air with a series of compressor blades which send the air to the combustion chamber in a direct line. A centrifugal-flow jet draws in the air with fewer but larger blades, and throws the air out around the circumference of the compressor on its way to the combustion chamber. Since an axial-flow engine has a smaller diameter, it is easier to fit into planes...