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...Aloha Stadium, 416 such air bearings are positioned under the four movable stands. They are linked by pipe to three large compressors. When the compressors are turned on, the bearings lift the stands up about .004 in. above a smooth concrete surface. That is enough to reduce friction sufficiently so that the stands can be moved along by hydraulic jacks a distance of 180 ft. in only 20 or 25 minutes...
Apart from such federal-state friction, many local governments are growing restive in the 17 states where they contribute to the nonfederal share of the most expensive welfare program: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (in the other states, the state government picks up the full nonfederal tab). In New York, where the AFDC bill is split 50% federal, 25% state and 25% local, officials of Oneida and Orange counties simply decided to stop contributing. In California's Plumas County, an impoverished timber area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, local welfare costs have risen by $60,000 from...
...clarified the underlying cause of earthquakes. It holds that the surface of the earth consists of about a dozen giant, 70-mile-thick rock plates. Floating on the earth's semimolten mantle and propelled by as yet undetermined forces, the plates are in constant motion. Where they meet, friction sometimes temporarily locks them in place, causing stresses to build up near their edges. Eventually the rock fractures, allowing the plates to resume their motion. It is that sudden release of pent-up energy that causes earthquakes. Off Japan, for instance, the Pacific plate is thrusting under the Eurasian plate...
...former Nixon aide and political counsel to Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, noted that his eyes will be pointed in a different direction: "I'm going to take a long, hard look at that Reagan committee," meaning at the group's observance of campaign laws. Already some friction has developed among presidential aides wanting control of the campaign. Callaway has been told to report to Donald Rumsfeld, Ford's White House chief of staff, rather than to Presidential Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose duties have included political matters. Hartmann aides are seething...
...Racial friction seemed to be on a lot of people's minds-even though few would really talk about it-because it turned out to be a factor in the election of Audrey Rowe Colom, a black Republican, as the new NWPC Chair. Colom, however, downplayed the tensions that gnawed at the convention. "I think that what you saw here this weekend was sisterhood and that sisterhood transcended racial, ethnic and party lines...