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Gerald Holton walked across his office to a convenient blackboard and drew a picture of a funnel. "Kids start out as a very non-homogeneous mix," he commented, sketching oddly shaped particles floating over the wide end of the tunnel. "Octohedrons, decahedrons . . . but" -- he elongated the funnel -- "by the time they get through high school and college, they are all the same...
...charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...
Congress came to the aid of the loan-starved housing industry last week with a $4.76 billion package of federal mortgage money. Responding to Administration urging and the lobbying of 700 home builders who flew into Washington five weeks ago, the legislators approved a. bill to funnel the funds into FHA and VA home loans through the Federal National Mortgage Association, a partly private, partly Government-owned corporation that is best known by its nickname, Fannie Mae. If all the money is used as intended, it should finance construction of about 320,000 homes, or nearly one-third...
...northeast Thailand. The increased logistical flow will supply not only the dozen U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons now operating in Thailand, but also four additional squadrons due to arrive soon, raising the number of U.S. servicemen in Thailand to 30,000 by year's end. As the main funnel for the flow, the Sattahip sea-air complex will require thousands of U.S. personnel...
...luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...