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...magazine characterized by consistently good, and sometimes spine-tingling writing, the article on Kali impresses me as hitting a. very high high...
...been experimenting with a pilot's seat that is shot out of the cockpit, pilot and all, by a 37-mm. shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones for a very short period...
...readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their...
Like slugs from a Tommy gun, the words stuttered out of Chicago's WBBM: "They take this 90-pound pressure hose and shove it up against your spine and . . . keep on giving it to you until you scream bloody murder." A scared kid was describing life at the state training school for boys at St. Charles...
...Victor, 8 sides). Walton's music was superbly tailored to its job: that of complementing Henry V's sights, speeches and sound. Put on its own (as in the battle music), Walton's score is disappointing. It serves best as an accompaniment to Olivier's spine-tingling recital of "Now entertain conjecture of a time" and the St. Crispin's Day speech. Performance: excellent...