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...model was balanced on a pin atop a long pole in the centre of the tunnel. Then an uprush of air whirled the little plane around until it was spinning free. What happened after the pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down...
While I wish to thank the CRIMSON for their very kind remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...mistakes were hard to correct. But he kept hard at it, turned many a laugh on his critics by his homely shrewdness, gradually built up a solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last person in Rome to find out the truth about her: that she was a nymphomaniacal adulteress, a treacherous schemer, a cold-blooded poisoner. This discovery made Claudius nearly willing...
...morning last week fog curled in thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
Historians rarely reconstruct a world convincingly: their models may be correct to the last detail but the clockwork that runs them is modern. Really moving pictures of the past are made not by scholarship but by imagination. Authoress Waddell has resurrected the famed love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval...