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...Dixie with both feet, all at once," operating the J-2 is a snap. After starting the engine and the J-2's conventional push prop, the pilot depresses a lever at the side of his seat, temporarily engaging the engine to the overhead rotor. When the overhead ro tor reaches 520 r.p.m., the pilot pushes a button to disengage the rotor and change its blade pitch from flat to 5°. While the kinetic energy in the whirling rotor blades provides lift, the engine delivers full power to the pusher prop. Between the lift and push, the gyroplane...
Gathering Notes. Most of the defendants pleaded guilty to visiting the Communist capitals and receiving money, but insisted that they had not spied on their return home. Many, like Artist Eung Ro Lee, said that they had cooperated only to get news of relatives in North Korea. Said Lee: "I just wanted to see one of my sons supposedly residing in North Korea." "I visited Pyongyang," said Composer Yi Sang Yun, "merely to gather material for my music composition...
...Pentagon computer, Marine Captain Charles S. Robb, the 28-year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect-and can hardly wait for his assignment to Viet Nam early next year. And while the first eight qualities are the most likely to put stars in Lynda's eyes...
...Status Car." For all that interest, NSU's bosses-Director Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf and Deputy Board Chairman Viktor Frankenberger-are counting heavily on their own RO 80, a homely four-door sedan with sloping front and raised rear that looks more like the product of wind tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands...
...Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were poured back into the company. Now, says Von Heydekampf, "If the RO 80 sinks, we sink with...