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...keep the ball from going into its spin-even if it is imperfectly hit. His proposed club would do just that. Its secret: an array of tiny retractable blades jutting out from the club's metal face and imbedded in a soft elastic material (see diagram). Whenever the club made contact with the ball, some of the blades would retract, forming a small, temporary pocket. The pocket, in effect, would grip the ball and reduce its tendency to spin-regardless of the angle at which the golfer whacked...
...only ones working on such a train. In a similar design proposed by Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park, Calif., the mag-net:c train rides on a concrete pathway about twelve feet wide. Ordinary rails have been replaced by two L-shaped aluminum guide strips (see diagram). As the train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles of ordinary horseshoe magnets repel...
...that of gravity. In sudden deceleration, the sturdy chest wall usually suffers no injury unless it strikes something like the steering wheel; neither does the heart. But the aorta, the largest of the body's blood vessels, is not rigidly held in the area below its arch (see diagram). While the forward motion of the chest wall and heart halts suddenly when the car smashes to a stop, some parts of the aorta keep on moving forward for a fraction of a second longer...
Perhaps Fuller's delusion comes from his viewpoint. In his notebooks, Albert Camus once described the airplane "as one of the elements of modern negation and abstraction. There is no more nature . . . everything disappears. There remains a diagram-a map. Man, in short, looks through the eyes of God. And he perceives that God can have but an abstract view. This is not a good thing...
Behind His Back. When a hip joint is damaged, the ball of bone at the head of the femur may rub against the roughened surface of the socket in the hip proper (see diagram), causing severe and immobilizing pain. Replacing the head of the femur with a stainless steel ball (just under an inch in diameter for the average patient) is relatively easy. The difficulty is to secure the ball to the femur. In early operations, the shaft holding the ball was screwed into the femur. Charnley was dissatisfied with the method because the shaft sometimes came loose. A dentist...