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...third time in eight years, Cambridge's mayoralty election has become a knock-down, drag-out fight between warring factions in the City Council. The issue is not likely to be resolved at this afternoon's meeting, four councillors agreed last night...
...glider and an auto engine and a windmill. Airplanes are still powered gliders." Working with gliders, delta wings and rocket planes, he has long dreamed of an aircraft that would fly without supporting wings. "Wings are for the birds," he says. "They heat up, and they increase drag. In supersonic flight they create sound and shock waves. Energy is lost. For economy, you have to have an internal flow process. You can reflect and extinguish these shock waves on the opposite walls of the channel that you put them through...
...knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
Since one can drag out the Yale log only once a year, and because Santa is a regular sport, it seems about time to draw up our list of Wishes That Oughta Be: Naturally, all of them will come true since everyone-coaches, players, even the referees--have been good fellows this season. And if they don't, it's obviously the fault of the bad boys over in the HAA who somehow made a stow with those football tickets...
While Airman Smith was still unconscious, Navy salvage crews began to search and drag for his airplane. No one remembered exactly where it hit, but one of the divers had happened to take a picture of an oil slick off South Laguna. By triangulation the point of impact was found, and after 381 dives, most of the airplane was fished up and collected in 44 barrels. "It looked," said a North American man, "like enlarged cornflakes...