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...hovercraft owes its good performance in rough seas to a kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering...
...House Master has hit upon the more realistic solution of lessen- ing parietal enforcement because of the disparity among the Houses themselves. It is inconceivable that the present parietals set-up is still supported by others. How can any restriction be called fair when it is applied unequally...
...person is eligible for one of the 13 Selective Service deferments. If not, Hunt recommends a multi-issue approach for several months before the probable induction date: make a claim for conscientious objection (even if it is unrealistic it will waste time and tends to lessen the jail sentence if you eventually refuse induction), begin seeing a therapist and complain about your fears of entering the army, engage in anti-war activities, write a series of indignant and inflammatory letters to your draft board...
...believe that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
...that time, the U.S. will be able to drift away from the gold pool and greatly lessen the monetary emphasis on gold, thus ridding the world of much of the alarm, speculation and instability caused by what William McChesney Martin calls "that barbarous metal." Most bankers and economists believe that the major monetary trend of the future will be a shift away from gold and toward a truly international paper currency, supported by contributions of currencies from all major nations. When that happens, money will be regulated by men instead of metal, and the value of each nation...