Word: maze
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Cambridge is a city of 6.2 square miles, 98,958 people and 37,440 registered motor vehicles. For many years it has been distinguished by a cruel rat maze of street patterns and traffic signals, pedestrians who enjoy the legal right-of-way over red lights and policemen, heavy trucks that rumble through the city for points north of Boston, and commuters from Belmont and Watertown who drive a legion of automobiles into Cambridge, park them, and leave on the MTA for work. While these distinguishing features have persisted, Cambridge traffic has become more snarled with each passing year...
...Perfect Maze. The solution, surprisingly, has long been obvious. But while engineers knew that the laminar (smooth) airflow they wanted could be had by sucking any turbulent air into a wing's inner cavity, putting theory into practice proved a stubborn puzzle. Dr. Pfenninger worked on his LFC (laminar flow control) wing for 23 years before perfecting its closely packed slits that are only a few thousandths of an inch wide. Under each slit, a small chamber gathers the incoming air and channels it through pin-size holes into ducts that lead to streamlined nacelles hanging under each wing...
...Amid the maze of machines, the bulkheads covered with cheery green plastic, the shiny steel fittings and the delicate equipment that demands constant attention, there is a private world that turns on four-hour duty watches and countless battle-station drills. It all goes on in the 410-ft. Ethan Allen's six watertight compartments, on four levels and three decks...
...fair's board of directors that ground will be broken for 75 more within a couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some merely elaborate. Among them: »THE FEDERAL PAVILION, a hollow square hovering over a watery circle designed...
...hear some people tell it, a modern U.S. military man should study Kafka as well as Clausewitz, since the terrain he must now operate in is more like Kafka's maze than Clausewitz's certainties. In a day of allies, proxy battles and limited wars, the military needs a whole new technical arsenal-politics, diplomacy, science, economics-to enable it to employ precise degrees of power in imprecise situations. All this asks of U.S. officers unprecedented competence, character and wisdom...