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Athletics. Flux and bewilderment under wraps. Club officials kept most of the players' draft classifications to themselves. The pitching staff looked fairly strong, including: Buck Newsom (4-F), Jesse Flores (Latin American...
Above all, Dean Russell offers a Heraclitean hope of eternal flux in man's affairs, recalls that school reforms have often come after defeats. The Dean fears the U.S. itself may be least progressive: he sees a growing trend toward medievalism, scholasticism and general educational reaction...
Devise a Trick. Earlier welding guns could be used only on horizontal plates. A small mound of powdered metal, of flux, was dumped on the plate and fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting...
...compass-oldest known navigating instrument-has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear. The new "gyro flux gate" compass, designed especially for aircraft, is already at work guiding United Nations flyers unerringly to their targets...
...Different Matter. The gyro flux gate compass, on which Bendix engineers worked seven years, is based on an entirely different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace...