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...reap his whirlwind, Chang started a smoke generator installed beneath a screened cylindrical cage 9 ft. high and 6 ft. in diameter. After the smoke was drawn toward the top of the cage by a powerful exhaust fan, the cage itself began to revolve. As the screen approached six revolutions per minute, it imparted a rotary motion to the air being drawn through it by the fan. The rising smoke gradually turned into a column that rotated at 1,200 r.p.m., whistling around in the cage at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. Pieces of confetti on the floor...
...funnel, surrounding the low-pressure "eye," is considerably greater than at the top. It is this extremely low pressure in the eye and the high-velocity winds in the funnel that make the tornado so deadly. To better determine the forces at work, Chang intends to build a larger cage that will produce winds of more than 100 m.p.h. -a velocity that he believes is high enough to simulate natural tornadoes more realistically...
Captain Quentin Spector and President Lloyd Macdonald have been driving the team through hard night practices in Carey Cage in preparation for the season which starts April 3 in Richmond, Va. An unprecedented 50 members from all over the University have come out for the spring team...
...grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with few, if any, facilities for genuine treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally...
Because practices have been confined for six weeks to the limited facilities of Briggs Cage, Munro has no idea yet how good Wilson will be. The winningest coach in Harvard lax history will use his 17 years' experience and the next twelve days on the field to renovate him for the start of the Southern trip, which begins at Hofstra April 4 and will continue with Rutgers, Washington State and Loyola Colleges of Baltimore, and Adelphi. The Crimson will then come home to face M.I.T. in preparation for improving their tied-for-last finish in the seven-team Ivy race...