Word: hydrofoil
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...opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took two of his daughters, aged three and five, and stayed for more than ten hours. "They were so continuously fascinated," he said, "that they never disintegrated into...
...conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where oldtimers still sip icy martinis on the veranda and watch the river ride by. The presence of the High Dam and the threatened antiquities above Aswan have bred a burgeoning tourist trade, and each day the 50-passenger hydrofoil Cleopatra roars up from Aswan at 30 m.p.h. to visit the historic sites that will soon be lost to mankind...
...women and children pouring over by helicopter, hydrofoil, excursion steamer, automobile, bus, train and subway to push through the new fair's 89 turnstiles can see at once that, first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head...
...civilian products. Lockheed has in the works such diverse products as fuel oil registers, highway bridges, ferryboats, saltwater anticorrosion systems and new metal alloys. Republic Aviation has signed up to build the British Hovercraft air-cushion vessel in the Western Hemisphere, and Boeing and Grumman are both experimenting with hydrofoil boats. Sperry Rand's defense engineers have produced a machine tool that is run by a computer, and Glendale's Electronic Specialty Co. is diversifying into heating and ventilating equipment. Ampex Corp. has reduced its military business from 62% of sales to 30% by bringing...
...academy of the senior seagoing service, the top 20% of each senior class for the past five years has been participating in a similar undergraduate program of independent investigations. Interdisciplinary in nature and uninhibited in choice, the projects have ranged from analysis and measurements of stresses in hydrofoil struts to operations research in man-machine relationships, from the design of an analog-to-digital converter to the development of statistical predictors of academic success; from feasibility studies of nuclear power plants for isolated loran stations to the synthesis of a steady-state parametric amplifier...