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...wild mop of brown hair, he woos his audiences with a wide assortment of audio-visual aids: a nifty little tango step, a flinging of the arms, a flexing of the knees, and a sort of deep lumbar lean that threatens to topple him over backward. He may drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze smokily back. Or he may rip open his collar, tear off his string bow tie and mutter: "Now I can really get down to work." When he sings Arrivederci, Roma, he breaks...
...These little wheels do their jobs because they try to point steadily in a fixed direction, and so they sense any turning motion of the vehicle that carries them. But conventional gyroscopes present a continuing problem. Because of friction in the bearings of their spinning wheels, they tend to drift slowly away from the proper direction, and so give false readings. This annoying weakness may soon be corrected. Scientists at Republic Aviation Corp. are hard at work for the U.S. Navy developing a gyro with no wheels, no bearings, and no friction at all. Its only moving parts will...
...much the same manner, but Minneman is sure that proton gyroscopes can be made far more sensitive, able to detect the tiny changes of direction that are all-important in missile and space work. Their lack of mechanical moving parts should free them from nearly all tendency to drift, making them valuable for guiding nuclear submarines, which cruise under water for weeks without getting a fix on the sun or the stars. They should be cheaper too. There are elegant instruments on the market, says Minneman, that cost $20,000. He is sure that the proton gyro, made .mostly...
...that there is little to worry about. The lower and stronger of the two space explosions will release electrons that will be promptly trapped by the earth's magnetic field. Most of them will get entangled in the atmosphere, creating artificial auroras. A few that travel higher may drift around the earth until they are over the Atlantic Ocean, where the lopsidedness of the magnetic field will make them swoop lower; then the atmosphere will absorb them...
Stanley White ordered Carpenter to stop using his rubber exerciser, told him to take plenty of water. He had no trouble drinking, although some of his bite-size food cubes crumbled, freeing particles to drift around the cabin...