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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest planes, from the big B-36 to Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles of smoothness have allowed many a crash-threatened pilot and airplane to survive and fly again...
...standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps in a fetal position and when awake moves with elegant slowness as if he lived...
...prize, but its title-role performance by Sir Laurence Olivier was judged the best by an actor in 1948. Olivier's Hamlet also cinched the distinction of being the year's most laureled picture by winning three other Oscars: black & white art direction, set decoration and costume design. Another Rank film, The Red Shoes, took three more technical honors, for its sets and art direction in color, and musical score...
During the war Emmons helped design and construct the Army's first large supersonic wind tunnel, which was used for research on bombs, projectiles and guided mission. At present he is consultant to several groups conducting research for the armed forces...
...tuition increase also applies to the Division of Engineering Sciences, soon to become a part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and also to graduate faculties in Design, Education, and Public Administration...