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...when he was 17, Marlon Brando took a bottle of hair tonic to school. When nobody was looking, he dribbled a thin stream of the stuff down a corridor, into an empty study room, and up the front wall. On the wall he scrawled, with the almost invisible liquid, a shocking word. Next period, when the room was full, he set a match to the hair tonic. Blue flame whooshed through the room, and the handwriting on the wall that day was nothing short of illuminating...
...great black cube in Mecca that is the center of Islam and the symbol of God's oneness. Pilgrim Asad "walked on and on, the minutes passed, all that had been small and bitter in my heart began to leave my heart. I became part of a circular stream-oh, was this the meaning of what we were doing: to become aware that one is part of a movement in an orbit? Was this, perhaps, all confusion's end? And the minutes dissolved, and time itself stood still, and this was the center of the universe...
Theoretically, the G suit makes it possible for a pilot to tolerate as much as two Gs more than human nature in the raw. In practice, however, any flyer tenses his belly muscles when he is going into a tight turn, and this tends to dam the blood stream. Some authorities question whether it really gives any more protection than good muscle tone, properly used. The Navy's Captain Charles F. Gell believes that the answer to G forces is not a suit but a reclining seat. At the Johnsville (Pa.) Air Development Center, he has experimented with tilt...
...Force C46 had been airborne only a few minutes when smoke began to stream from one of the engines. Fire-extinguishing procedure did no good, and Captain Thomas E. Wilson decided to abandon the plane. "MAYDAY," the distress call, went out, "MAYDAY-MAYDAY-MAYDAY...
...with right-angle exhaust pipes to shoot the jet blast downward, thus cause the Bedstead to rise. From a seat on top, the pilot steadies and controls the contraption by shooting compressed air through nozzles mounted on outriggers. When the Bedstead is tilted forward, the jet stream thrusts it ahead. Similarly, pulling the nose up causes the jets to drive it backward. The Bedstead is strictly an experimental device, has gone only 25 feet in the air. But Bell believes that its new swivel-jet plane, with wings, tail and rudder, can be developed into a practical plane...