Word: descents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson. _ An eerie story of a young girl's descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April...
When foul weather wipes out familiar landmarks, airline pilots have the I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) glide path to lead them in a gradual descent to the runway. At many airports they also have G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) operators to monitor every move. But before a plane drops below the ceiling and visibility minimums permitted by the C.A.A., the pilot must be able to see the ground. It is this quick shift from "instrument" to "contact" flying that separates the men from the boys. Last week, at Newark Airport, the Air Line Pilots Association demonstrated a new approach light system designed...
Hangsamcm, by Shirley Jackson. An eerie story of a young girl's descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...
...Airborne Center at Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...