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...Yankee in a convertible can enter the town of Egypt, Miss, lighting a cigarette, leave it exhaling his first drag, and never know that he has been anywhere at all. But Egypt is somewhere, all right; it contains a couple of general stores and filling stations and 100 citizens as civic-minded and world-aware as just about any in the U.S. It also contains the outstanding rural church in the South...
Moving Tails. Besides rails, a railroad needs block signals to warn of obstructions ahead. At 20-ft. intervals along Zworykin's cable are small transmitters that broadcast signals when a mass of metal (i.e., an automobile) has passed over them. This makes each moving car drag after it a moving "tail" of signals. When the car behind it gets too close, the block signals (acting on engine and brakes) slow it down in time to avoid a smash. The transmitters allow for the speed of both the leading and the following car. If the car ahead stops completely...
...most favorable spot: the hot desert that surrounds the Salton Sea in Southern California. A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e., 91% of the speed of sound. Above this speed, it runs into a sharp increase of air resistance that is called "compressibility drag rise." Since sound moves faster at high temperature, the best place to try for speed is a hot desert...
Whether the varsity shift will do away with the varsity drag remains to be seen this weekend, as a radically renovated Crimson crew meets Navy and Penn on the Severn Saturday afternoon...
...appalling to me that someone, because be was a disappointed applicant, should drag in an issue that does not exist. My close associations and friendships with so many people of every race, creed and color is, to me, a complete answer to this unfounded and unsigned letter. Samuel P. Sears...