Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frigidity, try caviar and red peppers, both rich in the reputed aphrodisiac vitamin E. Even better are "limited doses of dry wines." Or for a special lift turn on suitably sensual, rhythmically erotic background music such as Ravel's Boléro and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. If all else fails, why not shudder a little with an electric vibrator, used sparingly, of course, so that "a woman will not become more attracted to it than to her husband...
Most remarkable is the plan for a new three-way hybrid that combines some aspects of an airship, a winged airplane and a lifting body (a shape giving aerodynamic lift). The proposed craft, which looks remarkably like a porpoise, was designed by a group of engineers organized as the Megalifter Co. of Goleta, Calif., after NASA'S Ames Research Center invited proposals for lighter-than-air ships to transport heavy, bulky cargoes. At the roots of its undersized wings, which resemble Flipper's flippers, are four jet engines with a combined thrust of 164,000 Ibs. There...
...Channel Hops. In Britain, another group of engineers has formed Air-float Transport Ltd. to promote the "Airfloat HL" (for heavy-lift), designed by Surrey University Mechanical Engineer Edwin Mowforth. A VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) model, it could carry a load of up to 400 tons and move it more than 1,000 miles at about 90 m.p.h. Airfloat's hull shape is conventional, and its propulsion depends upon old-fashioned propellers turned by ten turbines. Eight of them are amidships for forward drive and are also capable of exerting a vertical thrust of 40 tons. There...
...during the week, tourists poured through this scene, stopping to lift their Instamatics for a snap or two, pointing out the famous and the infamous to their children. Teddy Kennedy paused at one point in front of the Capitol to survey the scene and was instantly set upon by well-wishers and the curious. He grinned, gave a few handshakes, and ducked into a convertible with his friend Senator John Tunney. As he was riding off and the fasters were starting another song and Rodino had his committee well into the impeachment debate and Justice Burger was still at work...
...more just American society, Johnson said that a "new day of opportunity is dawning" for the nation's poor. "The days of the dole in our country are numbered," he promised, and observers seemed to agree. The New York Times reported that the program "would help the poor to lift themselves out of the ruts of poverty and join the majority of Americans in sharing in prosperity...