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...Flex the Muscles. East of Suez, Brian finds that the best is indeed like the worst; it is the same old We-They world, with the disconcerting difference that he is now a They, while the Communist peasants he is fighting seem to him to be little blokes. In a brilliantly described jungle patrol, Brian, alone, is attacked by one of them. He manages to disarm...
Turning the Corner. Despite the inconsistency, the U.S. decided, four times within six days, to flex its military muscle...
...have learned to be even more leary of a telephone when it is resting innocently on the cradle. One of the Poles' pet dodges is to turn an idle receiver into a live mike, a trick most easily accomplished by replacing the phone's regular two-wire flex with a four-strand cable whose extra wires lead either to a transmitter in the wall socket or to an outside tape recorder...
...Ryan Flex Wing has no conventional control surfaces. Its pilot and 100-h.p. engine hang well below the kitelike wing, and control is accomplished by tilting the wing with respect to the heavy, low-hanging engine. If the leading point of the wing is lowered, the Flex Wing tends to descend. When the wing is tilted to the side, the Flex Wing banks and turns...
...Ryan has swift, high-flying hopes for its slow, primitive-looking contraption. The wing is extremely light; it can be folded into a small package and spread out swiftly. This makes it attractive for use as a steerable parachute or a glider. With an engine attached, the handy Flex Wing may serve for military cargo-carrying, wire-laying and other quick-transport jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment...