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...blind flying"; in Washington. He early noted that pilots grew accustomed to flying by "feel" and then tended to ignore their instruments. His research led the Army to require blind-flying training for every pilot. He invented the widely used "black box" for ground training-students sat on a swivel chair, peered inside a box at an instrument panel, guided their "plane" without seeing their surroundings...
...went up at 9:45, in order to skip the receiving line. It took six minutes of elbowing to get through the mob outside, and some swivel-hipped open field running to reach the dance floor. Four times he tried to cut, only to be tripped thrice and kicked once before he could penetrate the cordon of hopefuls surrounding the dancers...
Readers hoped they never found out who the officers were; but they also hoped the Army would find out pronto, and shunt them and their like right out of their swivel chairs-if not to limbo, to some spot where they could not risk soldiers' lives or the national security...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...
...strategic imports, all new defense plants, and the important expansion of aluminum and magnesium factories. With all this control the Secretary of Commerce could have been the most influential man in the Administration, other than the President, in pushing ahead the defense program. But instead he chose to swivel contentedly in his Washington office while the manufacture of tanks, planes, and guns fell behind...