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...trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read the results into the ready ICBMs that form part of the U.S. retaliatory force...
Cases like George Rockwell's happen occasionally, even in a society where the lunatic fringe is razor-thin. When they do, they serve to try the souls of sunshine libertarians. Rockwell is the crank leader of the American Nazi Party who, earlier this year, was denied permission to speak in a New York park. Now, with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union, Rockwell has won his court battle and the City of New York has to issue him a speaking permit...
...bored with the idea of becoming one himself. He started out to be an engineer. In the 1920s he began making statues (Josephine Baker, Helen Wills) in wire, produced a series of wire goldfish bowls in which the fish swam rhythmically back and forth at the turn of a crank. Out of his contact with Mondrian, he wanted to do "a Mondrian that moves." Thus the mobile...
...Automobile controls that eliminate the brake and gas pedals were demonstrated by Bendix Corp. Two pressure plates flush with the floorboards replace the pedals. Braking is faster because the driver does not have to lift his foot. Bendix claims the development will make pedals "as obsolete as the hand crank...
Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon...