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...M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried by the motion of a vehicle or the rotation of the earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element...
...Closet. The Instrumentation Laboratory's most important technological advance in building the jam-proof navigational system was the development of the Hermetic Integrating Gyro (HIG), a 3-in. long package containing a gyroscope spinning at 12,000 r.p.m. in an inner cylinder pivoted on virtually friction-free bearings and floated in a heavy liquid. Three HIGs -one to "memorize" each coordinate of a point'on an imaginary star line at take-off -and three accelerometers (to measure change of speed in each direction) are fixed to a gimbals-mounted, free-swinging platform unaffected by changes in the plane...
...Wayward Bus Steinbeck caught a group of assorted characters in a close and unavoidable situation, sealed them off from their daily lives and examined them. He brought out their responsibilities by a kind of dialectic in friction, playing one person against another...
What are the sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS's Church of the Air radio show, but denied clearance because it was judged too controversial) by Editor in Chief Thurston N. Davis. The sore points as Jesuit Davis sees them...
...coordination with the UN, must be ready to extend economic aid to these peoples. While this will not restore amity between the Arabs and Israel, amelioration of the refugees' lot and improvement of the Egyptian and other Arab nations' living conditions will somewhat remove the powerful economic goad to friction between the Arabs and Israel. Though there will be no love between the two groups, establishing a modus vivendi might eventually lead to Arab recognition of Israel, a peace treaty, and the realization that both nations must cooperate to solve interdependent economic problems of the Middle East...