Word: panels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging study of the curriculum, begun last year by querying 13,000 West Point graduates (including Dwight Eisenhower) on what changes they thought should be made. The alumni came up with a good many provocative ideas, e.g., women instructors, but agreed on little. West Point then called in a panel of consultants headed by Dr. Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, who urged 1) some elective courses, 2) more humanities and 3) more specialization in the upper classes. "The problem is where to put it in the curriculum," said Bowles, who estimates that revisions will...
...noise. Most come away convinced that more than one odd critter is loose inside. Station Boss Bill Brennan, 38, a hillbilly-talking Harvard-trained electrical engineer, directs operations in his bathing suit, but he prefers to escape to his plush apartment (separated from the office by a sliding panel operated by a hidden pushbutton). There he can toy with his "bar and his "Play Pretty," a frosted-glass wall behind which colored lights flare and flicker in time with the transmitted music. "On low notes," Brennan explains, "the low part of the panel lights up, and so on. When there...
...coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...
...nine miles up, his engine quit with a grating, rasping jolt. Rankin hopefully eyed the slumping panel needles, tried vainly to coax juice from an emergency electrical generator to rouse his radio, kept his aircraft from nosing over into supersonic speed. But only for an instant; a hundred battle missions and a bail-out in enemy fire over Korea had honed his survival instincts, and Rankin knew the choice. To his wingman, Lieut. Herbert Nolan, he snapped a message over his faltering transmitter: "Power failure. May have to eject." To himself he said: "This is going to be a pretty...
...Tingler's tingles are produced by small electric motors (one under each seat) bought from war-surplus stores for $3 apiece. They will be distributed to theaters along with a control panel, so that a man in the projection booth can turn them on and off in waves as the tingler crawls across the screen. Says Bill Castle: "I want to tap the entire potential audience-teen-agers, children, all devotees of adventure and horror...