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Last week, after 17 months in prison, long-legged Satira had no trouble in understanding an old Cuban custom. In line with tradition, President Ramón Grau San Martin celebrated the end of his four-year term by pardoning a select list of criminals. Among them: Patricia Schmidt...
...Hungry Speed Animal. Above Mach i, thinks the NACA, another and stranger type of jet engine begins to come into the picture. This is the "ram-jet," which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed...
...Ram-jets develop some power at low subsonic speeds, but they are efficient only above Mach i. For speeds even higher, it is possible to design a 20-inch-diameter ramjet that will develop (theoretically) as much as 30,000 h.p. They use a corresponding amount of fuel. Northrop's turbine expert Tom Quayle calls the ramjet "the hungry speed animal...
...NACA, the U.S. Air Force and various private companies are enthusiastic about ram-jets. They think of them chiefly as power plants for guided missiles, those "uninhabited aircraft" with which warring continents might blast one another to rubble from different sides of the earth. Super-enthusiasts think they may have a peacetime future also. A speed-hungry traveler, ramjet propelled at Mach 3, may start from New York at noon and flying west would see the sun sink rapidly in the east. He'd be in Honolulu in time for breakfast the same...
...Colonels' Revolution that overturned the corrupt, dictatorial regime of President Ramón Castillo, General Arturo Rawson had been one of the few devotees of democracy. For three days, five years ago, he had been President of Argentina. Rawson had passed quickly into history, a black-suited figure destined to spend his days amid the Jockey Club's splendors, while one of the obscure figures of the revolution, a man named Juan Domingo Perón, made the country over...