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...distant submarine screws or reduction gears. The sun heats the thin layer of air over smooth water, and this in turn can bend radar waves. Sometimes a thermal layer, 100 to 300 feet deep, distorts sound-and a knowledgeable sub skipper plays this layer like a shield. He can confound enemy sonar by hiding in the clacking wake of a destroyer, or by backing the submarine through his own wake to lose himself in his own echo...
...Mexican manager moved his boys from the first to the fifth floor of their hotel, hoping to confound athletic females with a nocturnal talent for window climbing. The Mexicans, too, were defeated. But they were not the only ones to reap extracurricular rewards. One luminous Swedish night an enterprising reporter camped outside the Northern Ireland team's hotel at 2 a.m., counted four window-climbing girls in half an hour...
Last week, as Parliament returned from its Easter recess, the commentators' phrases about the Prime Minister had changed to "jaunty, nonchalant, a sure and easy hand." "One of those astonishing reversals of political form that so often confound the pundits," said the Manchester Guardian. Even Laborites accorded him grudging admiration. In the Daily Mirror Richard Grossman, the usually captious Laborite M.P., admitted that Macmillan was giving the Tories "just the kind of dashing, decisive leadership they expected but never got from poor Sir Anthony Eden...
...noisy blasts against Postmaster General Summerfield may have turned the House Appropriations Subcommittee "purple," as you say [April 15], but until the hue of Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever-increasing postal deficit; updating the rules would be the first step necessary to reduce or eliminate the postage avoidance practices which shrink postal revenue...
...groups in attendance came with plays calculated to confuse or confound. Vassar contributed an excellent production of Strindberg's Miss Julie, which constituted the most consistently satisfactory theatrical experience of the whole weekend. The Yale Dramatic Association, which acted as the sponsor for the festival, opened the proceedings with some scenes from their recent production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge. Considering the fact that Yale was working on its home ground, the technical side of the presentation left something to be desired. It was well acted, but suffered from stiff direction and poor lighting...