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...inroads of civilization and the disintegration of the ancestral myths have made "duck-billing" a dying custom. Only a few elderly believers are still alive. Even they have shown a tendency to go mod ern; instead of the old wooden plugs, the Fali women are turning to plastic lip plugs, preferably colored bright...
CARMAKERS are testing mod els with turbine engines which burn cheap, diesel-type fuel. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all have turbine engines, but expect eventually to use the power plants chiefly in trucks and buses...
...speed necessary for aeropause flight, the craft will be enclosed in a film of hot air at 1,000° C. For flights of mod erate speed and duration, refrigerating units like those used on present-day jet fighters may be enough to counteract such temperatures. For long, fast flights, something more elaborate is required. One proposal for rocket-driven craft is to use the intensely cold liquid oxygen fuel as a heat absorber...
...world is in a soberer mod than in the Harding-Coolidge days," Dean Bender said, explaining the trend. He added that students now in College are a "more serious and hard working group than my contemporaries...
...France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...