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...square. But if one is carefully constructed with the right angle of absurdity and a base line of chatter, it can occasionally make intriguing trigonometry. The angle in this picture, as it happens, is pretty obtuse: the Air Farce, according to the script, is a gland-based gang of joystick jockeys who do almost nothing but make low-level attacks on garters of opportunity. As a result, the triangle in this picture is anything but acute. But it's cute, real cute...
Underwater, in its natural element, the atomic sub will have a destroyer's speed: 25 knots for steady cruising, 30 or 35 knots in emergencies. Her skipper will have an airplane's joystick to maneuver his craft in steep turns and dives, "fly" it like a fighter pilot in fast attack runs. Since the SSN's atomic engine needs no telltale snorkel to suck down air, it can travel deep underwater indefinitely. Its cruising range will be limited only by the ability of its crew to stand the tedium of days or weeks underwater...
...crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
...meeting, which was an end-of-the-year party, included a number of shooting games handily won by Captain Penrod. To lend aerial atmosphere to one called "Fighting in the Clouds," the shooter was placed on a chair perched atop a table, a "joystick" in one hand, and a pistol in the other, and told to explode some wildly jouncing balloons
...cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile, Pilot Hawes came...