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...result, says Boeing, is that the engine exerts more than 40% of its thrust in reverse, thus braking the airplane in the same manner as a reversed propeller. When not in use, the apparatus is completely out of the gas stream and so has no effect on the engine's operation. It weighs about 200 lbs. per engine, 800 lbs. for a four-jet airplane...
...public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing all the thermonuclear information that the U.S. could release under the terms of the McMahon (atomic security) Act. Then, in Commons, Churchill used it with devastating effect...
...weeks the outside world has been eagerly panning the stream of propaganda that pours out of Red China for nuggets of news about the health and whereabouts of Dictator Mao Tse-tung...
This week, in a book called Against the Stream (Philosophical Library; $3.75), a collection of Barth's recent writings, largely on church and state problems, appeared in the U.S. The book clarifies Earth's political position and partly explains its connection with his rigid theology, with which U.S. theologians, be they as "neo-orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth...
Professors' Textbooks. Never averse to minority positions, Barth feels that church denunciations of Communism would be superfluous. Says he: "When the Church witnesses, it moves in fear and trembling, not with the stream but against it ... Must the Church then move with the stream and side with America and the Vatican, merely because somewhere in the textbooks of its professors-ever since 1934-it has rightly been said that 'totalitarianism' is a dreadful thing? . . . The Church ought to stand quietly aloof from the present conflict and not let off all its guns before it is necessary...