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There is a widespread canard that 1963's teen-agers are brighter, quicker, and of higher intellectual potential attainment than any previous generation. Ghoulardi has knocked that theory into a cocked hat. Or rather into a football helmet with faucets sticking out of it. He wears...
...miles away - or spy out a distant rocket - and a humidity register so sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with a quick and painless puff...
...flown by pilots of the Vietnamese air force being trained and advised by U.S. Air Force personnel. Both are just as concerned about safety of noncombatants as our U.S. Huey pilots. Investigations have failed to substantiate such reports, although obviously the Communist Viet Cong would like to perpetuate this canard...
Most -but not all. In Singapore, the Straits Times, equatorial equivalent of London's flamboyant Daily Express, bannered, POPE'S HANDS TURN BLUE, and printed both headline and body type in a sickening shade of blue. In France, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchame issued a stinging, and dead-serious, rebuke to television. "Commentators spoke in low, vibrato tones to announce the least temperature rise . . . the most insipid details," said the magazine. "All was 'lachryma Christi' of the worst vin tage." In the U.S., on the other hand, New York Journal-American TV Critic Jack...
...configuration for the Viggen. To obtain both maximum efficiency at full throttle aloft and the slow landing speed needed for the short makeshift runways, Saab Chief Designer Erik Bratt, 46, turned to a design used at the time of the Wright brothers, but seldom since. Bratt has placed a canard-a nose wing with adjustable flaps-in front of the Viggen's main delta wing. The canard will help the Viggen make tighter turns-especially at supersonic speeds-and will slow it rapidly for landings...