Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they prefer to "stunt flying," and are busy nostalgically building the nimble biplanes that only one commercial company makes any more. E.A.A. planes are "generally smaller, lighter and more sensitive than the factory-built jobs, and more responsive, which is part of the fun of flying," says St. Louis Chapter President Robert E. Gwinn, 41, an aeronautical engineer...
...Other End. The St. Louis Chapter has 35 members-doctors, teachers, engineers and salesmen in their 30s. At least 15 planes are in the works (ten members have joined forces in a single project). The role of an E.A.A. wife is not inconsiderable. "Mine helps when I need someone to hold the other end of something or lift something," says Gwinn. "She also helps with the painting and fabric work." But forbearance is perhaps the cardinal virtue of a woman whose husband has an airplane in gestation. "When you're working with metal, it gets pretty noisy," says Shewmaker...
...plan of arrangement. Can the universe itself, the astronomers ask, have a definite shape? Or is the region that they have been in the habit of calling the universe merely a detail of a larger and still unimagined structure? Clearly, the questions raised by quasars open a new chapter in astronomy...
...When I write a book entitled Profiles in Cowardice, Miss Esther Carter will be the subject of Chapter...
...Precedent." Declaring that "the great purpose of the civil rights legislation was to obliterate the effect of a distressing chapter of our history," the opinion concluded that the specific convictions under consideration (cases from Arkansas and South Carolina) "must be vacated and the prosecutions dismissed." The ruling meant that some 3,000 other cases now pending or under appeal in which sit-in demonstrators had acted "peacefully" eventually would be dropped...