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...cool, modern "chamber jazz" groups, McCoy feels they are doomed, because "people want nostalgia today. I cater to the 40-year-olds who have expense accounts and memories, not to kids who buy Cokes and hot dogs...
...clock in the almost empty Senate chamber stood at a few minutes past 11 one morning last week as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas unfolded his lanky frame from his first-row seat and tersely asked unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consider a minor bill already passed by the House. Senators drifting into the chamber almost ignored the majority leader's routine request, which was routinely granted. The bill, a piece of legislative trivia, would authorize the Army to lease an unused barracks building at Fort Crowder to neighboring Stella, Mo. (pop. 177) to replace...
...Warden Fred Dickson. Said the warden: "I am at the cell with the condemned man." Ordered Governor Brown: "Well, you can send him back upstairs. I am granting him a 60-day reprieve." In his "holding cell," only 15 paces and ten hours from death in the gas chamber, hawk-nosed Convict Caryl Whittier Chessman, 38, self-admitted hardened criminal, got the news from the warden, asked incredulously: "You're not kidding...
...plug nozzle engine, the fuel is burned in a doughnut-shaped combustion chamber. The gas escapes from a ring-shaped nozzle surrounding the base of a conical plug. Instead of expanding sideways, the gas follows the plug toward its point. In effect, its expansion takes place in a flaring chamber bounded by the plug and the atmosphere...
Unlike the conventional engine, the plug nozzle works almost equally well at sea level and at high altitude. The ring-shaped combustion chamber can be divided into many small segments, each with its own fuel supply. By adding segments, the engine can be built in very large sizes without running into the difficulties that plague the designers of single combustion chambers. Single-chamber rockets are steered by mounting their engines on gimbals so that their thrust can be switched from side to side. With plug nozzle engines, the same control can be achieved by varying the fuel supply...