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Welding Retinas. Taking advantage of the unerring straightness and narrow diameter of laser beams, engineers are already using them to keep bridges, tunnels and dams in line during construction. Laser light has also proved helpful in aligning jet-plane assembly operations and the two-mile-long Stanford linear accelerator. When the high energy of laser light is concentrated on a small area, it serves as a high-speed drill that can burn precision holes through materials as hard as diamonds in a small fraction of the time required by conventional methods. It can vaporize the rough edges of such microscopically...
...ketch that is the prettiest, most opulent and-on the chart of her first two races-the fastest-racing yacht on the high seas. Last February, in her competitive debut, Ondine clipped two hours off the course record for the Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat. Strictly for Power. Unlike most ocean...
With the schedule Long has planned for Ondine, he had better corner the Dramamine supply. Last week, only days after the Newport-Bermuda contest, Ondine was racing again, on a 3,700-mile course across the Atlantic to Travem¨unde, Germany-a voyage that will take most of a month. After that, it's off to the Pacific for two more long races. What makes Huey sail? Publicly, he talks like John Masefield. Privately he admits: "My only fun is winning...
...North Atlantic freight traffic, but have been making encouraging inroads on ocean shipping on certain types of goods-no-tably clothing. The L-500's huge payload in its 121-ft.-long cargo area would enable airlines to carry freight for as little as 2? per ton-mile, low enough to give surface shipping a great deal of competition on a broader range of cargo...
...Dexter Cup, Nevele Pride had to overcome a bad post position-No. 7 in the field of eleven-that forced Dancer to "take the overland route" and drive three-wide for the first half of the mile race. Though Dancer eased him up at the end, Nevele Pride won in a waltz. His victory margin was four lengths, and his time-2 min. 22/5 sec. -clipped a full second off the old stakes record. "Before he is through," predicts Driver Dancer, "this horse could rewrite the record book." The erasers are already busy...