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Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...
...pupils and there will be umpteen sides and umpteen wings in each. Its buildings will dwarf the countryside for miles around. It will have its own aerodrome and pupils will arrive by communal transport planes and even by private 'jeep' planes from all points of the compass...
Soft Job. These two basic instruments are supplemented by a number of others: a gyro flux gate compass (TIME, Oct. 25), an automatic control for the supercharger, electronic devices to open and close the engine cowl flaps for proper cooling. The Flying Fortress now has 323 instruments, of which five of the most important are automatic, gyro-operated controls...
Staff Sergeant Henry Telker peered through shifting skeins of fog at the Philippine shore, looked at his small, wobbly compass, jotted in his log: "Location doubtful, chart little or no help...
...were keeping mum about it. Some Hollanders claimed they had seen V-2 launched from bare ground; others, from 80-ft. concrete pits. Some experts thought it could have been launched from barges off the Dutch coast. V-2 was variously reported to be guided by radio, by gyro compass, by fins, by spinning. But on one thing experts agreed: V-2 is a self-contained rocket, carrying its own oxygen and traveling at such speed (1,000 to 3,500 m.p.h.) that ordinary antiaircraft defenses are useless against...