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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...
...Hungry Speed Animal. Above Mach i, thinks the NACA, another and stranger type of jet engine begins to come into the picture. This is the "ram-jet," which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed...
...should people want to go that fast, or even at a conservative Mach 1.2? When asked this question, air designers look stunned or hurt. They recover quickly and answer with ringing confidence: "People want to go fast...
...Paramount) is a canonization of West Point and Model Cadet Alan Ladd. At the start Ladd is accused by an ex-plebe (Conrad Janis) of hazing beyond the line of duty, and of lying to bring about the plebe's expulsion. As the story unravels in flashbacks, things look pretty black for the hero. Before he came to West Point he fought in World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed). But by the time...
...wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...