Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian policy is already responsive to the new fluidity, and is hoping to channel it. Western diplomats, analyzing Malenkov's big Kremlin speech (TIME, Aug. 17), concluded that Russia has decided to concentrate its attention on France: to stir up fears of German militarism, to dangle hopes of peace in Indo-China (the only cold war front conspicuously unmentioned by Malenkov) and to break up the Western coalition by concentrating on its weakest link. To judge by his speech, the Russians have now abandoned any real hope of winning over the Germans...
Many responsible Frenchmen applaud this idea. U.S. aid, they say, merely postpones decisions that France must make herself. Yet a sudden stoppage of U.S. assistance could easily jeopardize the huge U.S. military investment in French bases and supply depots, stretching from the Channel to the Rhine. U.S. aid will probably be cut gradually, but cut it will...
...Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours...
...Inventor Willard Custer, 54, the test flight of his "channel-wing" aircraft † (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951) proved that it could take off in an incredibly short run. Eventually he hopes to show that it will take off at 15 m.p.h. inside 25 ft., hover motionless at a 23° angle and land within 25 ft. Custer, who has spent 20 years perfecting his plane, plans to sell a two-engine, five-passenger version...
...shaped bands which function on the principle of the Venturi tube, i.e., the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower the pressure drops within the tube. On the plane, the lowered pressure causes a suction, even at low speeds, within the channel's, maintaining the flow of air and preserving lift under conditions that would stall an ordinary plane...