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...from a pair of vintage Italian films. Sins of Pompeii and Fabiola. In somber contrast to the deluge of volcanic fire and dust that buried the city and its inhabitants, the camera strolled down the empty, cobbled streets of present-day Pompeii and glanced up at the peaceful, picturesque cone of Vesuvius...
Conditioned Response. In Greensboro, N.C., a week after he got an eight-month suspended sentence for stealing ex-Mayor Benjamin Cone's Oldsmobile, Ardell Reece was picked up by police, charged with hit-and-run driving, reckless driving, driving without a permit, stealing and wrecking Superior Court Judge L. Richardson Preyer's Chrysler convertible...
...Entry Crisis. Somewhere during the passage through space, which will last only 30 minutes over a 5,000-mile range, the bulk of the missile separates from the "reentry body," i.e., the nose cone and warhead. Now comes the crisis of the missile's life. As it drops down into the fringe of the atmosphere 60 to 80 miles up, it is moving at about 16,000 m.p.h. At this enormous speed, even the thin upper air generates temperatures that will vaporize any known substance. The dense lower air is even worse, and it smacks the re-entry body...
...also one method of developing a pupil's story sense, of training him to think of a chain of events in proper order. Meanwhile, the teacher also sharpens the eye and the ear. If a student cannot distinguish sounds, if he circles comb when he should have circled cone, he may end up insisting that the President had a hardtack, inviting people to his horse for dinner, and taking his cat along to class when he should have taken a catalogue...
...Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass jet engine, in which part of the air is passed around the combustion chambers directly into the tail cone, thus producing greater, more economical thrust, is highly praised by U.S. engineers. The Vickers Viscount airliner now flying on U.S. air routes has done so well that some 240 have been sold. Vickers is currently working on a bigger model called the Vanguard...