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...Coanda, 68, a successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
...Russian peace propaganda is likely to be a renewed proposal for a united and disarmed Germany, open for trade with the Communist East. A lot of Germans, and especially Adenauer's Socialist opposition, may fall for such a program. It would attract British traders, who would like to deflect German commercial competition eastward. It would be even more enticing to many French, distrustful of a rearmed Germany...
Springfield drew first blood, too, when Amato scored at 6:53 of the second period from 25 yards out. He lefted a long, hard kick from the right side into the left corner of the cage. Crimson goalie Roger Taylor backed up and jumped high to deflect it out, but the ball grazed off his hand high into the nets...
...best thing of its class yet made in the U.S. Since battle experience has shown that most fatal tank hits are on the hull, Chrysler has cast the T-48's hull in a single piece for added strength. It is designed with sloping sides to deflect enemy shells. The T-48's high-velocity 90-mm. gun has more punch than the 90-mm. mounted on some U.S. World War II tanks, and the gunner can swing on target with a new deadeye range finder...
...best time for a Russian military strike would be 1952, the economists claim, because Western military preparations will not be adequate then to give the West military superiority. Moreover, "the confusion and hurly-burly of an election year" will deflect the interest of politicians from the job of defense...