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When the sled has reached the speed the testers want, the escape device in the simulated cockpit ejects a dummy pilot. Movie cameras record what happens to it (see cut), and the testers figure out later whether a live pilot would miss the tail surfaces of a real airplane and live to parachute to earth...
...came over here," said Harry Truman to a roomful of bankers in Washington's Carlton Hotel last week, "to let you know, in spite of certain information which has been pretty well distributed, that I do not wear horns and I haven't a tail." The bankers laughed heartily...
Within a few weeks he had things worked out surprisingly well. None of his squad was particularly fast--this meant Shepard's favorite fast-break brand of ball wouldn't work. But John Rockwell and Ed Smith were tail and good workers under the basket; be decided to concentrate his attack around the two lanky forwards. He built a double-pivot game around them, and it promptly paid off. Rockwell's work put him among the nation's top scorers by the middle of the fall...
...Corps had four planes and was a branch of the Signal Corps. Hap was taught to fly in Dayton by the Wright brothers. The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping. Hap was the first to direct artillery fire by airborne radio, the first to show that planes could be used for reconnaissance. The first air mail was a mail sack he flew five miles across Long Island, N.Y., and plopped down in front...
...Tail. Elsewhere in the world last week, man's fey behavior was undoubtedly affecting other members of the animal kingdom. In Honolulu, pearl fishermen made plans to dope stubborn oysters into yielding up their precious pearls, by a drug said by its sponsor to resemble that used by obstetricians in inducing "twilight sleep." In Thaxted, Essex, a theatrical scene painter unveiled a gasoline-powered mechanical elephant that walked at 28 m.p.h., flapped its ears, carried eight passengers, a license plate and a taillight...