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...Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...
...wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even when the power consumed by the pump was added as drag. A more advanced system with 69 slots worked even better...
DINAH SHORE. "Her tilted head, her feet-together position, the outward thrust of her palms and the rolling of her hands make her seem as though she's surprised at her success, that she's delighted at being listened...
...small, experimental aircraft, and Bell has not told how much weight of airframe, payload and fuel its thrust-diverters can lift. Neither has Ryan given figures for its X-13. The chances are that each of the rival VTOLS has advantages. The X-13 needs launching equipment, while the X-14 does not. On the other hand, the X-13 is pushed into the air by the undiminished thrust of its jet engine. The thrust-diverter of the X-14 probably wastes thrust, reducing the weight that the X-14 can carry...
...find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that the American conquerors will rescue him and make him burgomaster...