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Other jet fighters have "ejection seats" which shoot the pilot clear of the tail by the force of a powder explosion. A small "drag parachute" keeps the seat from tumbling. After the pilot recovers his wits, he detaches himself from the seat and floats down to earth with his own parachute...
...Charged Powder. The "revolution" was electronic "dry writing," or Xerography.* The complicated process was based on the long known fact that some materials are "photoconductive," i.e., become conductors of electricity when exposed to light. Xerography uses such a plate charged with static electricity. When the plate is exposed to light, the charge is released from all parts of the plate except those shaded by the image to be reproduced. The plate is then dusted with a charged powder which clings to the shaded, or image, part of the plate. When a piece of paper (or any other material) is placed...
...Medford, where practice was held last year, horse hoofs have left a powder-dry dust ankle deep. The once well-cared-for track is now filled with jagged rocks and flat spaces come no bigger than the palm of your hand. The Cambridge golf course has proved too hilly, and to top it all off, Mikkola can't even find an adequate means of transporting his runners from place to place during practice...
...Powder Kegs & Lollipops. No worthwhile estimate of the chances of war can be made (as the Frenchman made his) on the basis of an isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very...
Russians pay enormous taxes (hidden indirect sales taxes average 350%). In exchange they get an all-pervasive police system whose members are far better fed and clothed than the people themselves; medical care which is dubious by American standards (Welles came across Russian doctors whose cold remedy was mustard powder sprinkled in the patient's socks); and an education which takes 76% of all Russian children no farther than the fourth grade. Writes Welles: "The Kremlin . . . culls out the best children to form the elite governing class ... It makes workers of the rejects...