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Diamond knew that the speed of sound is greater in warm air than in cold air. If a sound wave, rising through the sub-zero temperatures below the upper jet stream, suddenly hit a layer nearly as warm as the earth's surface, the top of the wave front, he figured, would accelerate. The whole front would then bend back earthward and rumble down. Diamond figured that he might be able to bounce a boom off the upper stream, predict its course, and record the boom as it came back to earth, thus helping to confirm his rocket data...
...Supreme Court has often seemed as notable for the frequency of its 5-4 split decisions as for the sub stance of the decisions themselves. And the past few months have certainly been no exception...
Today marked the final day of seminars for the more than five hundred Congress delegates who arrived Sunday for a two week stay. Tomorrow the Students will meet in sub-committee sessions, which will begin drafting legislation to be debated on the Congress floor next week...
Without Apologies offers no excuses for its rather inaccurate sub-title: a program of satire. There is little more than surface resemblance between the authors aped and the playlets penned by an anonymous aper. The Shakespearean parody might just as well be one of Marston and that of Odets is nothing more than a 1930ish view of Chayefskyland...
...museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and doors snap shut like those in a sub marine if any art object is touched...