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...meters) and style, in which sky divers somersault and turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained free fall is an ecstatic swan dive, the jumper falling spread-eagled and belly down, his back deeply arched. A roll of the head, a dip of the hands, a hunch of the shoulders-any movement will alter his fall. The body acts as a primitive airfoil and expert sky divers use it to control the speed and direction of their plunge. Officials lying flat on their backs study and judge the falling forms through binoculars, but to most...
...Tongue: "It's 'upstuck'-up but stuck." But Tongue figures that "we'll muddle up a bit more gradually. Given the stimulus of a tax cut next year, we'll continue up in '63." One belief is common: whenever it comes, the next dip will be shallow and brief because production now is moderate, inventories are lean, and personal incomes and savings are higher than ever...
These days the scientific headlines all seem to spring from the multimillion dollar Government contracts that send one spaceship after another into orbit and beyond. But all the advances in military weaponry, all the new moves into space, require more than Government money; they dip deep into man's slowly accumulated capital of basic scientific research. And nowhere is that capital reaccumulated more earnestly than in the private laboratories of U.S. industry...
...taking on a federal project, the university incurs extra costs-more heating, lighting, cleaning, postage, additional teachers to replace researching faculty men. Since the Government pays only part of these extra costs, the university must dip into tuition and endowment...
...prices on 2,000 items. Women's nylon stockings were down from $3.90 to $2.88 for half a dozen pairs, bedspreads from $14.97 to $8.90. aluminum storm-screen doors from $33.90 to $22.90, portable TV sets from $137.95 to $119.90, food freezers from $219.95 to $188. The dip-down in the Ward catalogue's prices is one of many indications that prices of goods are soft throughout the country...