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...Channel Hops. In Britain, another group of engineers has formed Air-float Transport Ltd. to promote the "Airfloat HL" (for heavy-lift), designed by Surrey University Mechanical Engineer Edwin Mowforth. A VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) model, it could carry a load of up to 400 tons and move it more than 1,000 miles at about 90 m.p.h. Airfloat's hull shape is conventional, and its propulsion depends upon old-fashioned propellers turned by ten turbines. Eight of them are amidships for forward drive and are also capable of exerting a vertical thrust of 40 tons. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Lift for Airships | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder-but-wiser voice, the plan was to stash his family in the countryside while he commuted to the city to research a book about Sir Gordon Sandstone, a hero of the Boer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best and The Brassiest | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

ACSR chairman Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law, said last night that the new Portuguese government's policy toward Guinea-Bissau is "one of the imponderables people are speculating on all over the world...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: ACSR Abstains on Resolution On Guinea-Bissau Withdrawal | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

Four days later, Lennon's body was found in a Surrey ditch; he had been shot twice in the back of the head. Police said it looked like an I.R.A. execution. Before he died, Lennon had taken Melly's advice and gone to the N.C.C.L. For six hours the disheveled, unshaven Ulsterman spilled out an incredible story of how he had been blackmailed into becoming an informer on the I.R.A. for British intelligence. He was clearly afraid for his life, recalled Larry Grant, the council's senior legal officer, and feared not only that the vengeful I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Informer | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

There's no business like covering show business, especially when it reaches the global proportions of Paramount's ambitious production The Great Gatsby. In England, Cultural Correspondent Lawrence Malkin talked with Director Jack Clayton in London and drove deep into the Surrey countryside to interview Mia Farrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 18, 1974 | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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