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...point out an omission in your story that would lead many people to considerable trouble, grief and expense. I refer to your mention of the trim-tab on Intrepid's keel. I am the holder of U.S. and Canadian patents which cover this particular feature of a keel flap and a separate rudder. For the purposes of the 12-meter boats involved in this year's series, no restrictions were placed upon use of the feature. Nevertheless, it is not in the public domain, and its future application remains subject to patent...
...result, U.S. public support for the U.N. rose sharply: from 50% of the people in 1953, according to one poll, to 74% in 1955. Lodge was a master dramatist. After the U-2 flap in 1960, for example, he memorably countered holier-than-thou Soviet rhetoric by revealing that the Russians had bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow-and displaying the Great Seal that had contained...
...mechanically linked to a flexible driveshaft set in the leading edges of the wings. If one or more engines fail, all four of the 941's big 15-ft. propellers continue to spin, powered by the engines still running. In addition, the wings are equipped with outsize flaps that lower to an angle of 105°-about 15° more than the flaps of any conventional aircraft. The big propellers and abnormal flap angle are the source of the 941's superior STOL capability...
Actually, in the 195 episodes of the serial so far, he has yet to solve a crime. Just when emergency strikes, the "fantastic feathered fighter" finds that his chicken suit has been lost by the cleaners or the zipper is stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good...
...Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...