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...passers-by in Wilmington, Del., last week, the strange round, candy-striped craft might have looked like the UFO sighting of the century. As it hovered above the ground, the large sphere-as well as the four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist...
...barrel and into the mass at the other end. The density of the material in the combined masses of U-235 suddenly increased enough so that the fast-moving neutrons triggered a chain reaction and the bomb exploded. The Nagasaki bomb used a more efficient method: a hollow sphere of plutonium was enclosed by shaped explosive charges. When the explosive was detonated, it sent much of its force inward, crushing the plutonium into a solid ball, a "supercritical" mass that released even more energy than the Hiroshima bomb. With the proper explosive and some plutonium fashioned into the proper shape...
...move to disperse the enormous sphere of power and influence built up by Bennett and his predecessor Paul C. Cabot '32, also of State Street, began last spring when Putnam was chosen to succeed Bennett and State Street and Harvard concluded it was about time to change portfolio managers...
...socially adaptive apparatus which embodies and reflects the particular values, folkways and mores of black people. Black culture (like all others) is dualistic; it has a functional dimension and an existential dimension. The functional dimension is characterized by the power-mustering capacity of blacks in the socioeconomic sphere. The existential dimension provides a defense against the culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks is the inherited pattern...
...this new self-definition and self-assertiveness of blacks must more fully enter the functional dimension. For too many black students, "blackness" is defined solely within the ritualistic sphere; that is, being one with the Black Geist deals only on the symbolic level. Black cultural uniqueness must be preserved, but it also must invorporate achievement-oriented behavior that has been universally and historically proven to elevate the power-mustering capacity of a people, thereby alleviating the oppression of blacks...