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...minute repertory of spins, splits, axels and loops (the same one that won the world title at Garmisch). She had never done better. But Tenley Albright also was in top form; the ankle she injured before the Olympics was healed. Her spectacular mazurka, witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close, but the judges proclaimed Tenley Emma Albright winner and U.S. champion for the fifth straight year. It was the eighth time in nine meetings that she had beaten Carol...
Since party divisions are generally meaningless in a discussion of integration, it would be foolish indeed for either party to drag the problem into the political ring; it would also be extremely dangerous for the cause of integration, since integration will make progress as a legal, not as a political, issue. Those working effectively for integration in the South are emphasizing not that the Court decision is right, but that it is now the supreme law of the land and must be obeyed. Once the ruling on integration is lowered from its judicial pedestal, the decision will lose what sanctity...
Once in the lower atmosphere, the space plane will slow down by circling, and head for some landing field with a very long runway. It will touch at 250 m.p.h., and may use a drag parachute to check its speed on the ground. When the pilot steps out and walks away, he will have passed the longest 20 minutes in the history of manned flight...
...eliminate the trouble, the engineers applied the new "area rule" theory of Engineer Richard T. Whitcomb of the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In 1951, Engineer Whitcomb discovered in wind-tunnel experiments that the total drag on a plane is not merely the sum of the drag on each of its parts, but varies according to where the parts are located. Convair's F-102 was redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair...
Organized amateur astronomers will be called on to track the satellite with binoculars or modest telescopes during its first revolutions, which will not be exactly predictable. When it settles down in its orbit, the professionals will take over. Eventually, the satellite will be slowed by air drag, will swing lower and lower, meeting more air and more drag. At last will come the wild moment when it plunges back into the atmosphere and turns into a streak of fire. As this stage approaches, the amateur satellite-watchers will be needed again. The orbit will be changing too fast...