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Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...
...idea that the British want merely to achieve a balance of power in Europe ! Surely it is because we have interests in every part of the world that we oppose the strong local action so often advocated in the U.S. You wish that our stake in Pacific Asia were heavier because "that might bring British policy down out of the Nehrunian clouds." It is just because our interests in Asia are great that we realize that only Asians who have been brought up in a democratic tradition will be able to check the Asian masses attracted by the specious promises...
...Numbers Mobile to teach the child both arithmetic and art appreciation. To make the mobile balance, the child must hang a number of small Masonite disks on one side to match corresponding numerical figures on the other. The big numbers are larger and heavier than the small ones, thus require more disks to balance the mobile...
...heavier on other composers during the '20s. When Cowell was studying in Germany, both Bartok and Berg asked permission to use tone clusters in their own music. Cowell happily told them to go ahead-"The more the better." In the U.S., his Hymns and Fuguing Tunes, with their solemn and lilting melodies, hollow-sounding harmonies and simple, wide-spaced polyphony, became part of the foundation of a new "American school...
...Unveiled. The Air Force at long last released pictures and a sketchy description of the Douglas X-3 research plane first taken into the air by Test Pilot Bridgeman, who considered it a "nasty little beast" (TIME, April 27). Actually, the X-3 is heavier and slightly longer (66 ft. 9 in.) than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold...