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...Moving Tails. Besides rails, a railroad needs block signals to warn of obstructions ahead. At 20-ft. intervals along Zworykin's cable are small transmitters that broadcast signals when a mass of metal (i.e., an automobile) has passed over them. This makes each moving car drag after it a moving "tail" of signals. When the car behind it gets too close, the block signals (acting on engine and brakes) slow it down in time to avoid a smash. The transmitters allow for the speed of both the leading and the following car. If the car ahead stops completely...
...passing, Dr. Zworykin provides diagonal cables that lead from one lane to another. When a fast car treads on the tail of a slower car, one of the diagonals shunts it to the left-hand lane. Another shunts it back again when it is safely past. So far, Dr. Zworykin's system has been tried only with model cars on a simulated highway in his laboratory. The cars do not collide, and one passes the other nicely...
...tail end of the Communist Party's afternoon parade came 2,000 olive-skinned Algerians, marching in disciplined formation and bearing posters demanding the release from jail of Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj. At the Place de la Nation, a sudden rainstorm sent paraders and bystanders rushing for shelter. When police tried to hold back the stampede, the Algerians overwhelmed the barricades and began attacking with stones, bottles, chairs and broken barriers. Riot squads came sirening to the scene, threw a cordon around the Place de la Nation, opened fire with rifles. When it was all over, six Algerians...
...time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers. *And the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his New York Herald Tribune coverage of the 1934 America...
...surprisingly, Paul Mathry finds the Cronin blend of American ruthlessness and British hypocrisy a tough obstacle in the way of justice. No matter where he scoots, digging up new evidence to free his father, the cops and the judiciary are forever on his tail, eager to bury the nasty stuff again. But Ulster's Paul fights on with true U.S. idealism, until at last he proves that the murder was committed by a well-known Wortley philanthropist and that Sir Matthew Sprott got the conviction of father Mathry simply to feather his own nest...