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...major infusion of fresh American military power if it is ever required. The funnel for that infusion of men and equipment will be a new deep-water port and mammoth airfield at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. With its pair of 11,500-ft. runways, fuel pipeline to the railheads at Don Muang, giant ammunition storage piers, the $75 million Sattahip complex is the largest military construction job in all of Asia, phasing into operation over the next two years...
...Using tiny temperature, velocity and pressure recorders, Chang has already gathered some basic data on his miniature storm and discovered that it conforms to tornado dynamics in two ways: the motion of the column is faster at the top than the bottom, and pressure at the bottom of the funnel, surrounding the low-pressure "eye," is considerably greater than at the top. It is this extremely low pressure in the eye and the high-velocity winds in the funnel that make the tornado so deadly. To better determine the forces at work, Chang intends to build a larger cage that...
...delegation: Watutsi warriors are still massed on the Rwanda side of his border, threatening invasion. The Sudan's Mohammed Mahgoub has reason to resent Uganda's Milton Obote, who harbors Sudanese rebels. Congo Strongman Joseph Mobutu is no friend of Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who helped funnel arms to the Simba rebels. Since Tanzania is currently a base for the enemies of Malawi's Premier Kamuzu Banda, the crotchety autocrat stayed away from the Nairobi summit, although he unbent enough to send his Commerce Minister. Of the lot, only Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda...
...There wasn't any funnel," said Jackson Druggist Gus Saunders. "It was just a dark grey curtain with light on either side." It was a tornado nonetheless. The death-dealing screen flung itself repeatedly last week against populated areas of Mississippi. On Jackson's southwest fringe, sounding "like a thousand jets," the tornado struck at 4:31 p.m., demolishing a crowded shopping center and killing a dozen people. A man and his collie were picked up in their car, turned around, and set down 60 ft. away. A mother and son were decapitated side by side. A Negro...
...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...