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...like Ben Shahn, Jackson Pollock and Alice Neel (see cover portrait) painted pictures to be displayed in schools and other public buildings. The WPA Federal Theater Project provided 12,000 jobs for novelties like Orson Welles' all-black version of Macbeth and the jazzed-up Gilbert and Sullivan Swing Mikado. "It takes a lot of nerve," Hopkins warned Theater Project Chief Hallie Flanagan, "because when you're handling other people's money, whatever you do is always wrong. [But] what's a Government...
Until the heavy billy clubs start to swing, Poles sometimes have trouble distinguishing the aggressive security forces from regular army and police units. Some of the shock troops travel with regular army and police units. Their leaders may even carry the rank of general in the army or police. Except for the white belts that are worn by the W.S.W. (the Military Security Service assigned to keep an eye on members of Poland's 320,000-strong armed forces), the special troops have almost no distinguishing marks on their uniforms. Explains Tadeusz Nowakowski, a prominent Polish writer now living...
Rolling down the runway, the little twin-engine jet looked like any rich man's weekend toy, but as it picked up speed over the California airstrip and began climbing, the craft underwent a bizarre and visually unsettling transformation. Its wing began slowly to swing around-its right half angling forward in the direction of flight, the left back...
...operates most efficiently if its wings intercept the air at an angle. Trouble occurs when the plane is flying at slower, subsonic speeds: swept-back wings reduce lift and increase fuel consumption. One way designers have tried to overcome this problem is by creating "variable geometry" aircraft that can swing back their wings at higher speeds and bring them forward for reduced speeds, especially during takeoffs and landings, when the plane needs maximum lift...
...swing-wing planes are difficult to build. They require greater structural strength, weigh more and burn more fuel than a comparable fixed-wing aircraft. As far back as 1945, Robert T. Jones of NASA's Ames Research Center, who proposed the first U.S. swept-wing aircraft, saw a simple solution: a single, rigid wing that would swing on a single pivot point. The oblique wing, as he called it, would vastly simplify the structural problem. The fact that one end of the wing would be pointing forward might look odd, but it was, he realized, aerodynamically unimportant. In high...