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...Annapolis was marked by some unpleasantness. But Rickover's temperament also caused some of his troubles. Rebellious, secluded, intellectual, determined to make high marks, he did not fit the conformism of the Academy. He took little part in athletics; he preferred study to bull sessions; he did not "drag" (date...
...literary hit or miss. In Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West (The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers) camps on a familiar theme, the growing pains of a lively, sometimes lonely adolescent. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for January, Cress is episodic in form, and never takes a deep enough drag on its subject to give anyone a sharp sense of reality, but as a kind of filter-tipped "Life with Daughter," it makes engaging light reading...
...coming in awfully hot. He must have been doing at least 180 in the approach." Though the plane's hydraulic system seemed to have stopped functioning, Townsend finally got his wheels down, apparently by using compressed air from the emergency container. "But even with that much drag," the mechanic noted, "she just wouldn't sit down...
Otherwise, there may be a few spots that drag or one or two off-key notes, but they are lost in the many show-stoppers and production numbers. "Ad Man Out" is an entertaining musical and a tribute to those who put so much time and talent into it. Audiences will continue to have a good time watching...
...seconds too soon, and the experts are now trying to figure out why. Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago believes that the chief reason is the inaccuracy of man's fundamental timepiece, the revolution of the earth on its axis. For many reasons, including the drag of the tides and the little-understood motions of fluids in its interior, the turns of the earth vary slightly. This makes the earth a capricious clock which can be checked only by comparing its turning with the motions of independent bodies such as Mercury...