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Heavy winds and a small, cement-hard field accentuated every Harvard weakness as the Crimson soccer team slopped to a 3-2 decision over Tufts in Medford yesterday. First-half goals by Ahmed Yehia, Lutz Hoeppner, and Geoff Keppel gave Harvard a cushion that survived two late-game Jumbo flukes in a contest that was neither as close nor as exciting as the final score...
Inventory Cushion. The Javelin is the first of the 1968-model cars scheduled for official unveiling between now and mid-September. The new year does not figure to be startling in its innovations. The Javelin's main rival as a conversation piece is likely to be Chevrolet's Corvette, which will feature a sleeker silhouette and a Ferrari-like snout. Mercury will introduce its new Montego, which will essentially be an elongated Comet. Dodge will add some curves to its slow-selling Charger. Such features as cover-up headlights will become even more familiar. And to comply with...
...first seven months of calendar 1967, domestic car sales amounted to 4,600,000, down 9% from the same period in 1966. With the prospect of an auto workers' strike next month, Detroit has gone into full production on 1968 models in hopes of building up an inventory cushion...
Everything seemed normal when Test Pilot David W. Howe eased the LA4 "Lake" amphibian toward Niagara Falls International Airport earlier this month. So he radioed a highly abnormal report to the tower: "Bag down and inflated." Seconds later he landed-without wheels-on a cushion...
Howe was testing a new air-cushion landing gear (ACLG) developed by Textron's Bell Aerosystems Co. of Buffalo. Based on the British Hovercraft principle (TIME, June 2) and conceived by Bell's T. Desmond Earl and Wilfred J. Eggington, the system employs an elastic bag made of laminated nylon and rubber attached to the underside of the plane. For takeoffs and landings, the bag is inflated through louvers in the plane's underbelly by a fan on board. Air is forced through hundreds of openings on the underside of the bag, producing an air cushion that...