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...Soviet U.N. mission headquarters itself, 200 New York cops formed a ring around the block, barricaded the corners. In the street, police cars and motor bikes purred; cars loaded with weapons stood by, and the mounted police clip-clopped steadily about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner...
...electric stair-climbing cart. The "Stair Cat" was introduced by General Electric for moving appliances and heavy equipment, hefts a 500-lb. load up or down stairs at the rate of 18 ft. per min., automatically brakes when the motor turns...
...bull's eye on another. Sacramento's Aerojet-General Corp., prime contractor for the Polaris missile's propellant, found that when the solid fuel was molded, bubbles tended to form, caused trouble in firing. To find the bubbles, the company had to haul the finished rocket motor to a giant X-ray laboratory, spend two to three weeks taking pictures. Aerojet's radiation experts went to work, found they could do the job in hours by slipping in a radioactive cobalt pill, using photon-counters to measure the rate of radiation. If it was steady...
...stimulus, as in birds. Nerves cannot work that fast. How then does the midge fly? In Britain's New Scientist, Professor Vincent B. Wigglesworth, extracting reports by other European scientists, supplies the answer: midges-and presumably other similar insects-are automatic flying machines. A midge's muscular motor works in much the same way as a piston engine. Once the ignition is turned on. the engine keeps running until the ignition is turned off or the fuel exhausted...
...trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar salesman who has become a part of Americana (teenagers call his places "Hojos") by catering to the common denominator of U.S. taste and haste. Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned foods (clams, chicken croquettes) in supermarkets from Maine to Florida. This year 310 million customers will pour $200 million into Howard Johnson tills, $120 million of which will go either directly or through franchise returns to Howard Johnson's family...