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...height of the conspiracy the boys attack their dormitory proctor with pillows. They hound him into submission in a chaotic onslaught that leaves the room filled with floating feathers. Then the camera switches to slow motion, the feathers hover eerily, and the boys tie their teacher to his bed, which they tilt on its end. Then they march slowly, agonizingly slowly, out of the dormitory, carrying Japanese lanterns intended for a procession in the next day's alumni ceremonies...
...team of six doctors, nurses, and technicians hover at chamber-side, the radiologist maneuvers a betatron into position. After slamming shut a hatch at the end of the chamber, technicians force oxygen in. After 15 minutes under full pressure, during which the patient's body is closely watched by means of closed-circuit television, the radiologist turns on the betatron, shoots radiation at the tumor. Following treatment, the patient is decompressed in deep-sea-diver fashion and taken to the recovery room...
...radar observers were aware of trouble, too. Efforts to raise the plane by radio failed. An eavesdropping Pan American pilot on a training flight slid his jet close by to identify the Electra. From SAC's Homestead Air Force Base came a fully armed F-102 to hover watchfully 5,000 ft. above the hijacked plane...
...Test Station) with a delicately variable thrust. When it blasts off, the rocket climbs the cables as long as the thrust of its engine is greater than its total weight. When the thrust is reduced by electrical signals sent through an "umbilical cord," the rocket can be made to hover, then ease itself gently down the cables to a controlled landing on automobile shock absorbers...
...fireball of a nuclear explosion touches and melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere was too big to hover in the air very long or drift very far, Dr. Kettlewell believes that his little moth acquired its radioactive particle before leaving Africa, carried it 1,500 miles to England...