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...Armstrong (who made the first jump for science) had said: "[I felt as though I were] lowered slowly into a great bed of softest down." When his eyes were closed, he added, "all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in mid-air." He had thought "the rush of air past the ears would produce considerable sound, yet none was noted...
...falcon dropping on its prey whistles like a dive-bomber, kills its victim in mid-air with one powerful rake of its talons, sometimes swoops to catch the dead bird before it hits ground. Trained, a falcon will fly free (at 100 m.p.h.) to pounce on game birds. The U.S. can use falcons, as other armies cannot, without endangering its own homing pigeons. Reason: the U.S. has developed night-flying homing pigeons...
...furnishes that whole set of "tools of analysis," of sweeping assumptions and jargon, which the student will find indispensable ballast as he goes on in economics. The non-concentrators, however--and by requirement of the Division they are numerous in the course--are left with their tools in mid-air, without the slightest hope of ever touching the ground of reality. To carry out its dual function with justice to all, Ec A could profitably use more case material, and risk an occasional reference to government, unemployment, communism, and even Ft. Knox...
...this contest, both teams having been defeated more than once along the rocky road they have traveled. There were the usual fireworks, but Yale never had more than a long-shot chance to win, It was Harvard's game almost as soon as the opening kickoff was in mid-air...
Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attaché of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland...