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...around the waters of California's Santa Barbara yacht basin. No propellers, no jets were visible along its sleek, 10-ft.-long hull, yet the sub was obviously moving under its own power, gliding silently at about 2 m.p.h. 3 ft. under the surface. There was not a motor on board, but the odd little boat was being propelled by the same electrical phenomenon that causes rotors in electric motors to turn: electromagnetic force...
...Dock Leader Trevor Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation. "Every time there is a real crisis or an artificial crisis," he says, "the worker rather than the employer classes have to suffer." Shop Steward Tony Bradley, in Morris Motor's Cowley plant, perceptively observes that "the whole trouble with the country is the conservative attitude of the Englishman-manager and worker-who is opposed to change. He lives in a rut, and we are all guilty...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance the motor accident that crippled him and the convalescence that ended with his death...
...when McNamara awarded the construction contract to the General Dynamics Corp., which submitted designs for a more expensive and, in the eyes of most military men, less efficient plane than the one proposed by the Boeing Co. McNamara's detractors, mindful of his past as president of Ford Motor Co., began derisively calling his $7 billion brainchild "the flying Edsel...
...pollution, engineers have long pointed an accusing finger at the automobile. Last week the significant reports were in. Based tests made in California on 404 new models, all equipped with the devices required by state law to control exhaust fumes and cut down on engine evaporation, the State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board found that the new equipment had removed 70% of the obnoxious, smog-causing gases...