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...price should include driving lessons: piloting a Hovercraft is almost as tricky as flying a plane. Steering is controlled by a wheel (connected to air rudders) and the direction in which the driver's body leans, but Spectra tends to drift out disconcertingly on turns. "The first feeling you get on our craft," MHV's President Geoff Voyce cheerfully concedes, "is one of sheer panic...
...That was the instant impression of TIME Correspondent Robert Lewis, who test-drove a Spectra last week. "But after a while," reported Lewis, "you begin to get the hang of Spectra. It has a very distinct maneuvering capability, even if it does drift in the turns. To be sure, the craft is not built for slaloming in the forest; even experts require at least a 20-ft. clearance to allow for drift. Nor would you want to stray very near railroad tracks or city streets: the decibel level from the two loud engines makes it impossible to hear any approaching...
WILSON: Because in the other case the person said, "I am coming as his advisor and in addition I intend to report for the CRIMSON" [unclear]. Now we could let it drift at that but if there is any serious difficulty, the thing to do, it seems to me, is to postpone the hearing and go back to the Committee and come back again...
HAUSLER: Can't we just accept the [unclear] and let it drift? It seems that we have the exact same situation here whether or not these people are describing it differently from the way Margolin and Hollander described it, it's precisely the same situation. I don't really...
...evidence piles up, so do the refinements of the Hess theory. Geophysicists are now convinced that the lithosphere conveyor-belt system actually consists of six separate plates that drift on top of the earth's mantle. When they collide, they can build mountains; the Andes were probably created when the Pacific plate wedged under the Atlantic plate, throwing up vast amounts of the overlying continent. When they move apart, they produce quake-prone schisms like California's San Andreas Fault...