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Regions & Spheres. Of the victorious powers, only the Big Three have an industrial plant big enough and varied enough to support modern war. This sharp concentration naturally produced a tendency for other states to group themselves around the three strong ones, and for the three Great Powers to try to run things in their own regions. Because their power is naval and their vital interests are worldwide, the British are not so deeply enmeshed in "regionalism" as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is creating a "sphere of influence" in the states along its borders...
...third tunnel is the Army Ordnance's, in the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; it will be used to study bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow...
Historic Insistence. Last week the U.S. and its immediate sphere were involved in hot debate. The question: whether the Pan American system erected by the U.S. and its Latin American neighbors should be subject to the .world Security Council, and through the Council to the veto power of any Big Five member...
This agreement, Salvemini declared, is the reason why the Russians are not making serious attempts to dominate Italy, but acknowledge it as a British sphere of influence. In spite of this he claimed that because of the mistakes of the occupational forces, democracy is discrediting itself. The average Italian, he said, now defines democracy erroneously as "Fascism plus hypocrisy...
...pinwheel. Sir James reasoned that a spherical galaxy spinning in space, like a whirling ball of soft butter, must spread out at the edges and flatten in the center and become more & more disk-shaped, thus evolving from a ball to a spiral. Therefore, said he, a sphere must be the first stage in galactic evolution and a spiral the last...