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...language, over the centuries, has become divided into more than 500 separate dialects, some of which are among the world's most complex and include as many as four genders of nouns declinable into as many as eight cases (v. six in Latin). He is also the inventor of such simple but effective instruments as the boomerang and the womera, a slinglike device for launching spears...
...Curtain. Hovercraft were born in the fertile mind of British Aeronautical Engineer Christopher Cockerell in 1954. Testing his notion in true pioneer-inventor fashion, he attached a hose to the exhaust of an ordinary vacuum cleaner, stuck it through a hole in the top of an open-bottomed tin can, and watched fascinated as the can floated off the floor; the increased air pressure inside the can had pushed against the floor through the open end, lifting the can. Recognizing that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft...
...will be in regular service across the English Channel by 1968, making their runs at speeds as high as 85 m.p.h. By the end of 1970, the company expects to have developed 300-to 400-ton air-cushion ships that will be capable of operating on the open seas. Inventor Cockerell visualizes a 10,000-ton atomic-powered craft that will cross the Atlantic at high speeds with 2,000 passengers aboard...
Died. Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
...share, or $4.20 less than he paid, Simon sold 77,353 shares of Wheeling to Pittsburgh Steel, plus an equal amount to the family of the late Charles F. Kettering, the General Motors inventor and executive. Along with three other Simon-picked directors (Simon himself resigned as chairman and director last November), Wheeling Steel President Robert Morris announced his resignation. In as chairman and chief executive of Wheeling will go Allison R. Maxwell Jr., 52, a gregarious salesman who has held the same job at Pittsburgh Steel since...