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What the hypnotist had done was to show another aspect of his craft--one that has emerged in this country only recently. He had performed hypnotism to correct particular negative behavior patterns and substitute them with more desirable attitudes. Its practitioners say that it is difficult to find many people willing to undergo "serious" hypnotism. But its use is becoming more widely accepted...
...Wisconsin's 'Sawdust City,' " he recalled, "my education was transferred to the manual side of factory, store and bank. Here I lived behind the scenes in the life of the worker." But in 1901 he moved to New York and taught photography-the rudiments of the craft-to students at a progressive academy called the Ethical Culture School, and there the first of Hine's great subjects appeared to him: Ellis Island. Over a period of five years, 1904 to '09, Hine would take the ferry out to the cavernous halls through which dispossessed Europe...
...John Foster Dulles airport. The findings so far: the plane's noise level has almost always been below what most experts regard as the threshold of aural pain. Many of the airport's neighbors have even phoned in complaints about the Concorde when the offending craft has actually been a distinctly subsonic DC-9. In contrast to the high-pitched whine of a Boeing 707 or 747, the Concorde produces a throaty low-frequency rumble that rattles dishes and bric-a-brac. One FAA report notes that irritating though this is to airport neighbors, these vibrations have less...
Ground controllers will then begin navigating the craft into closer and closer orbits of the sun by properly trimming the sail. Then they can put the ship-moving at a top speed of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour-on a course to intercept Halley's comet in March 1986. Jettisoning the sail, and "flying station" just two kilometers above the comet's head, the ship will take TV pictures and readings to determine the visitor's composition and origin. Says J.P.L.'s Murray: "We don't have a clue about comets...
...ions produced when a beam of electrons (generated by electric current from solar cells) is sent through vaporized mercury. Such a low-thrust ion engine could, like the sunjammer's sail, maneuver a ship to a rendezvous with the comet. NASA is scheduled to decide next August which craft, if either, will make the mission. Until it decides, there will be fierce but friendly competition at J.P.L., where employees last week identified their allegiance by wearing buttons reading either TRUCKING WITH ION DRIVE or I'M A SOLAR SAILOR...