Word: bowle
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...Inside a Bowl. Because it would slope upward in a graduated bank from its inner edge to its raised outer edge-much like the inside of a shallow bowl -the circular runway would provide great directional stability to a plane landing at high speed. It would prevent the plane from veering out of control to the right or left. Pulled outward by centrifugal force and downward by gravity, a fast-rolling plane would be confined to a circular path high against the outer, steeply sloping part of the runway. As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would...
NORTH-SOUTH ALL-STAR SHRINE FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 4:30-7:30 p.m.). From the Orange Bowl in Miami...
...period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers" and "learning laboratories" where supplementary materials are available. To complaints that some kids waste this time, Newcomer replies: "The reason so many good high school students...
When Life ran a skeptical story about Fred Schwarz, the outcry from Schwarz's backers, some of whom were national advertisers, Induced Life's publisher, C.D. Jackson, to fly to a Schwarz rally in the Hollywood Bowl and offer a public apology. "I believe we were wrong" Jackson said, "and I am profoundly, sorry. It's a great privilege to be here tonight and align Life magazine with Senator Dodd, Representative Judd, Dr. Schwarz, and the rest of these implacable fighters against Communism...
Portions of the book have already appeared in LIFE and ten other publications, and consequently his opinions of the State Department as "a bowl of jelly" and of Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a man who "seemed actually to prefer stale to fresh ways of saying things" are already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening...