Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between raids north, James strafed ghetto rioters. "I'm not a nonviolent man," averred the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 230 Ibs.) ex-footballer, who has to be shoehorned into the cockpit of his F-4 Phantom jet. "I'm a fighter. But I respect the law of the country. The trouble with burning down your homes is that you can't really be free without a place to be free...
...strong are some of today's steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are subjected to much greater stress. Earlier this month, a research team at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory announced development of a super steel alloy that will bear as much as 4 times more pressure than common structural steels without breaking...
...TRIP process may well have wide applications in other areas of metallurgy. "We expect there will be an analogous series of alloys for titanium," says Zackay. "We just haven't had time to look for them." Titanium is used in jet aircraft, and although both engineers termed the idea of using TRIP-processed materials to prevent metal fatigue "pure speculation" at this point, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Other conceivable uses of TRIP steel: storage tanks to withstand the super-coolness (as much as -450° F.) of liquid helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen; chemical-processing...
...role. In an editorial headlined "A Damning Indictment," the London Financial Times argued for what it called "the honorable tradition that whenever a disaster occurs the man in command should go." Not so, snapped Sir Miles Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that...
After a month of contradictions the Food and Drug Administration last week announced the chemical nature of STP, the latest jet-speed psychedelic. Says FDA: it is technically called 4-methyl 2.5 dimethoxy alpha methyl phenethylamine, but is known simply as DOM to the Dow Chemical Co., its discoverers. It is related to mescaline and amphetamine. Dow insists that none of its samples have leaked into illegal drug channels; the formula for making it must have been stolen. But pharmacologists believe that several different mind-shaking concoctions are being distributed to hippies under the magic initials STP, now translated...