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...automobiles, trucks, etc. the free piston engine has special advantages. The gasifier, its heaviest part, can be placed under the hood while the turbine can be in the rear at the end of a gas pipe. This eliminates the drive shaft that clutters low-slung cars, and it distributes the engine's weight in a desirable way. Unlike straight gas turbines, free piston engines have quick response. The man whose self-confidence is supported by making jackrabbit starts when the traffic light turns green will not suffer deflation if his dream-car of the future has free pistons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Turbine | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...concerned with the hillbilly headache, applauded Norma Lee. Scores of Southerners-including some who have migrated from the -same areas themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anglo-Saxon Migration | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian T-34s and 50 out of 300 armored cars. At Abu Aweigila, site of the heaviest fighting in Sinai, the Egyptians, according to Nasser, lost another 24 artillery pieces, 24 self-propelled guns and 21 Sherman tanks. Nonetheless, he insisted, the Israelis (who claim to have captured more than 100 tanks and nearly 200 artillery pieces) had won no real victory in Sinai. Said he: "Despite great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: We Never Believed | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...same time, College statistics indicated the heaviest proportion for Ike in the freshman class, 3 to 2. Sophomore statistics reversed the proportion for Stevenson, with 522 votes to 382 for the President. Stevenson polled 390 votes among Juniors, compared to the Presidents's 351, and 387 votes among Seniors to 289 for Eisenhower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike Captures Nat Sci Votes In Straw Poll | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Anchoring the scrum is captain Terry Turner, now playing his fourth season for the Crimson at eight man. He and locks Tony Markella and Bill Shane, both converted football players, are the heaviest forwards, with flanker Geoff Locke having the height necessary for lineouts. Huff and sophomore Dave Steinberg are the likely props...

Author: By Alastair J.C.E. Rellie, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

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