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...promptness and tidiness. The students work harder and longer (and drop out less often-the rate is only 7½%) than those at many academic high schools. Discipline is well in hand. Future aircraft mechanics are too busy peering into a jet engine, or revving up a mounted piston engine, to get into much trouble. In the auto shop, young tinkerers stay out of trouble with "outside jobs." At Dunbar, a pricewise Chicagoan can get a Cadillac engine overhauled for $160, v. $350 at the factory...
...over the years, Detroit's engineers have cranked up substitutes for the old piston engine, but nothing much has come of them. In Manhattan last week, Chrysler Corp., which lately has been casting around for ways to bolster its sagging business, unveiled a new experimental automobile engine (installed in a Dodge Dart) and sent it scooting to the West Coast on a trial...
Chrysler's engineers claim that their version of the turbine engine provides many advantages over the conventional piston-driven types. It weighs one-third less, has fewer moving parts (and thus causes less vibration), needs little overhauling, and can probably outlast an auto body. It requires no oil changes or Antifreeze, can use any kind of fuel that can be sent through a pipe and that will burn with air. "It will run beautifully on diesel fuel, peanut oil, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, furnace oil-or even French perfume," says Engineer George Huebner Jr., conjuring visions of service stations equipped...
Robert Middleton, who holds a Harvard A.M. and worked under Walter Piston, has wisely scored the opera for a small, six-man orchestra. Performing and conducting himself, the composer gave the piano the burden of the music, so that the musical texture never palled from overspicing...
...premature case of the palsy soon to afflict all airframe companies in the age of aerospace. Fast disappearing were the World War II days of mass production of aircraft with relatively little emphasis on quality control. In the swiftest industrial sequence in history, the U.S. was shifting from piston-engine planes to jets, from jets to missiles, and on beyond to the incredibly precise devices required for space exploration. Between 1953 and 1961, Pentagon purchases of manned aircraft plummeted from 9,000 to 1,500 per year, while Government spending on missiles, rockets and related research soared 600%, from...