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...still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of lift), supported horizontally only by centrifugal force. The hub was an engineer's nightmare. There was only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began?as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before?trying to learn to fly a strange, new and hideously...
Radcliffe's rejection of the Dior lift has put the fashion-conscious young lady on a par with college women in the east. Her insistence on comfort over submission has also won her the hearts of eastern college males. When weekends are cold, every stout-hearted man would like to have his date sensibly rather than sexily dressed. That way they both have no worries...
Last week a dozen or more stout French hearts were beating a little faster at the thought of becoming Président de la République. An almost inaudible, all but invisible campaign was going on. Between Dec. 16 and Jan. 16, the members of the Council of the Republic (Senate) and National Assembly will meet at Versailles to choose a President to succeed the incumbent, adroit Vincent Auriol...
Soon after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stepped off the plane at London Airport, he was whisked off to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. Over the brandy, Prime Minister Churchill launched into the subject now dearest to his stout old heart: a "parley at the summit." But Dulles was expecting the lecture, and came determined to withstand it. In the words of one dinner guest, Dulles "flatly rejected" the P.M.'s proposal...
Biographer Jones believes that Freud was the first man ever to "know himself," the first to examine depths whose "inner resistance" had baffled all others "from Solon to Montaigne, from Juvenal to Schopenhauer." But stout partisanship in no way dulls the brilliance of Jones's biography, any more than it did in the case of James Boswell's celebrated admiration for Samuel Johnson...