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...special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional objections on which the White House was afraid to go to bat in the Belcher case...
...head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that my backbone bent and I groaned with the force of it. it drained the blood from my head and started to blind me. I watched the accelerometer through a deepening haze. . . . I was blind as a bat. I was dizzy as a coot. I looked out at my wings on both sides. I couldn't see them. I couldn't see anything. ... I could feel my guts being sucked down as I fought for sight and consciousness. . . . My eyes felt like somebody had taken them...
...will," declared Sohn. He studied flying-squirrels and bats, compared his findings with glider principles, began working on a set of wings in his spare time while traveling with an air circus. Few weeks ago he completed his flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...
...tempted to echo a recent CRIMSON editorial by saying, "What the CRIMSON needs more than anything else is to go on a sustained bat," but it is obvious that the need has long since been fulfilled. Now that the CRIMSON has won the goodwill of Benito Mussolini and the Harvard Corporation, it might be well for the National Student League to point out some fallacies, intentional or otherwise, in your editorials of Feb. 15 and 19 on our opposition to Professor Gini...