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...chart. The marriage game continues in the presence of the couple's lawyers. Debbie fights dirty, and in no time at all, Dick is taken to the cleaners. She gets custody of the house, the children, the car. "The uranium mine to her," he sighs, "and the shaft...
Hanging Gardens. To do it, he simply designed the hotel around a great skylit courtyard that rises through the building's full 21-story height and is big enough, according to the hotel's ads, to contain the Statue of Liberty. Wrapped around the towering shaft of air on four sides is the hotel proper, layer after layer of rooms opening onto continuous interior balconies that take the place of traditional corridors...
...from Haddon by disclosing recall campaigns on its own. Thus, at the same time that registered letters went out to the car owners involved, Pontiac announced to the press last November that it was calling in 16,000 Tempest, GTO and Le Mans cars to correct a suspected steering-shaft misalignment. By February both Chrysler and Ford had adopted G.M.'s policy. Last month alone, automakers announced at least six call-backs involving more than 180,000 cars and trucks...
Lockheed's rigid-rotor design, in effect, makes the whole shebang a stable flying gyroscope. The concept-rigid blades attached directly to the rotor shaft-was tried and dropped in the '20s; experimenters found that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick...
Another Greenough dweller called it "the double shaft...