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...through the plane are details that cause cold shudders as well as admiration. Titanium and stainless steel skins are "sculptured" chemically, sometimes to a thinness of .007 in. to save ounces of weight. Electric motors run at a temperature that would bake a cake. Such novel techniques-and thousands more that have been used in the XB70A-are interesting but highly experimental. They will call for elaborate and repeated testing before the dangerous cobra can attempt its first high-speed flight, scheduled for this summer...
...Algiers, and military overseer of the war in the South. Recruited largely from the peasantry, Giap's 400,000-man, Russian-equipped army is closer to the people than the party. His 27 divisions, decked out in eggshell-white uniforms with green badges, help build public works, even bake bricks and construct their own barracks. Naturally, the army also has the guns...
...rectangular tube that will do away with the cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato in five minutes, ultrasonic washers that clean without suds or water, and compact thermoelectric appliances that heat, cool and freeze without the aid of moving parts...
Oxygen Debt. In a room that looks more like a home-economics lab than a hospital ward, women wash and iron clothes, bake custards and brownies, make dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...people whose stomachs are majoring in English, there is Linda Wolfe's The Literary Gourmet, which contains carefully researched and ably presented recipes for meals that occur in literature, such as the bake meat pies that Geoffrey Chaucer's franklin loved and the boeuf en daube that was the special triumph of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse-"It was rich; it was tender; it was perfectly cooked...