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Instead of cylinders and pistons, the Wankel engine has a single combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls...
...order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper stages) in 1961, Centaur (Atlas plus more powerful upper stages) in 1962, Saturn (eight Jupiters clustered together) in 1963, Nova (giant single-chamber rocket) in the mid-1960s...
Each year Christmas on disks grows louder and bigger. This season the record companies are all but burying the tree with a blizzard of releases, ranging from a collection of Renaissance motets (on Epic's The Birth of Christ, with The Netherlands Chamber Choir) to Children go Where I Send You (ColPix) in which Songstress Nina Simone belts out the story of the "little-bitty baby was born in Bethlehem." In between are gaudy packages by the industry's perennial carolers : Arthur Fiedler, Fred Waring, Mitch Miller, George Melachrino. Among the more notable Christmas tinsel...
Each night the students will present two Mozart operas conducted by Joel Lazar '61, Bastien and Bastienne, and Martinu--Comedy on the Bridge. Besides the operas, the festival may include several chamber music recitals, according to Burton A. Melnick '62, director. Melnick also hopes to have a prominent poet visit the House and read some of his works, but he has not yet selected the writer...
Looking at the aftermath of the steel strike, some economists last week were swinging around to the opinion that for all the harm it did the economy, it also may have done some long-range good. Along with others. Chamber of Commerce's Schmidt pointed out that the postwar economy has averaged a recession, or at least a leveling in growth, every 30 months. But the steel strike was itself a recession; therefore, the normal setback that might have been expected has been delayed, and business should be good well into...