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...axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried by the motion of a vehicle or the rotation of the earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element is an electronic "Schuler pendulum" that always points toward the center of the earth, regardless of an aircraft's acceleration (speeding up or slowing down).* The unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth...
...Mallory 1000 metal, a unique development of Mallory powder metallurgy. Already providing required balance in the nose of guided missiles, Mallory 1000 is twice as dense as steel or brass and far stronger than lead . . . actually outdoes nature in packing concentrated weight into the smallest possible space. As the pendulum in self-winding wrist watches, the rotor in gyroscopic control mechanisms, counterweights in airplane ailerons, and in dozens of other applications . . . this unique, man-made metal is another example of the way Mallory prepares for tomorrow's progress-today...
...Historian James Thomas Flexner points out that Hopper is the one painter of his generation who is "in the air" today. Flexner dares hope aloud that "the old gentleman will be a bridge between today's abstractionism and realism, for sooner or later the pendulum's got to swing back. Hopper's compositions are awfully good in the abstract, you know. Abstractionists respect...
...influenced a whole generation of English painters. Sir Joshua Reynolds made copies of Rembrandt's paintings, and so did Gainsborough and Turner. Goya's studio had ten Rembrandt prints, to which Goya freely admitted his debt: "I have had three masters: Velasquez, Rembrandt, and nature." As the pendulum swung from classicism to romanticism in the 19th century, Delacroix seized on Rembrandt to best his classicist rival, Ingres, and wrote: "Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael...
...only hope of a government with so narrow a base is that on matters of foreign policy it could pick up center-right votes and on domestic issues it could pick up Communist votes. This is known as the pendulum theory: getting support from the Communists without becoming beholden to them...