Word: jolt
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Caught by Cotter Pins. Washington has been something of a jolt for the man who has spent a lifetime in the symmetrical, sense-making world of banking. In auditing Defense Department expenses, for example, he learned that a few expensive, unnecessary items had to stay in the budget because they affected the home folks of Congressmen or Senators with critical votes to cast on the whole budget. He had to learn to jump at a growl from the members of the House Appropriations Committee. Only last week, while his head was swimming with the billions of the new budget...
...desired directions. His electric models, which simulate the control problem of a full-scale aerodyne, fly very well. Attached to an electric cable, to supply power and control signals, they rise on an even keel, circle around a hangar, hover indefinitely and land without a jolt...
...roots deep in the restful Old South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto...
...secret formula to provide a slightly different taste for devotees. In Manhattan, President Tribuno personally blends each batch of 30 to 40 exotic herbs-blessed thistle, angelica, hyssop, elder flowers. Roman camomile, clary sage, sweet marjoram, etc.-into the vermouth's white-wine base. A jolt of 180-186-proof brandy (90-93% alcohol), fortifies the wine. The vermouth ages for months before it is blended with other vermouth and filtered. As for Vermouthman Tribuno, his formula is a conservative martini, four parts gin to one part vermouth. Says he: "I could mix it dryer, but with this ratio...
...garage door, the radar screen will flash an impulse to the brakes, which will slow down or stop the car. The mechanism will be geared to take into account the speed of the car as well as the distance. For example, the radar car would be halted with a jolt if a car only a short distance ahead stopped suddenly. But if the slowing car were a few hundred feet ahead, the radar car would be braked easily. The radar brake can make electroni cally fast decisions for the driver who is inattentive or slow to react, can be canceled...