Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to TIME [April 8] for the "Case of the Budget" and for helping John Q. Public to maintain a proper perspective of a great man who holds a great office. Moreover, the Herblock helicopter reproduced-which implied a President sublimely aloof to relevant issues-is effectively grounded by TIME'S down-to-earth reporting...
...already the pent-up tide of trade had rushed past the diplomats. Last week the unofficial boycott which several Western governments had managed to maintain against the reopened canal crumbled under shipowners' pressure. The first British ship since last October's invasion-the freighter West Breeze with a cargo of peanuts from Hong Kong-went through the canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from...
...Canals. Easily identified and eminently useful is No. 13, the sense of equilibrium. Its most important receptors are three fluid-filled canals set in different dimensions in the labyrinth of the ear. This affords, says Foerster, "the ability to maintain balance even though our ears be plugged and our eyes closed . . . When the head or whole body is tilted, the fluid in the tubes is disturbed, setting up nerve impulses that let us know we are leaning to one side...
...Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried by the motion of a vehicle or the rotation of the earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element is an electronic...
...length over the rest of the field, and holding the margin until Syracuse started its bid with 3/4 of a mile to go. At this point the Orange put its boat up to 35 but varsity stroke Fritz Schwarz kept his boat at 32 and still managed to maintain a lead of about 2/3 of a length...