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Back for another tilt at four-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 55, and his well-greased Democratic machine is Providence Attorney Christopher Del Sesto, 51, who almost turned the trick two years ago. After all votes were counted in 1956, Del Sesto was proclaimed winner by a hair-427 votes-only to have the victory torn from his hands by a ruling from the state Supreme Court invalidating 4,954 absentee and shut-in votes. Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic...
Chief complication is keeping the gyro platform absolutely stable and unaffected by gravity; it tends to drift. Such forces as bearing friction and the rotation of the earth itself tend to tilt the platform out of line. On the Nautilus the system apparently worked without significant drift for the full 96 hours under the ice, and eventually the Navy hopes for accuracy up to 90 days at a time...
...Tilt. In Jackson, Mich., someone made off with Farmer Fred Sandusky's windmill...
...Berets. In January 1957, with the Algerian rebellion in full tilt and the capital city terrorized by bomb attacks, Massu was named Military Commander of Algiers. With 20,000 paratroopers, spearheaded by his own loth Parachute Division, he directed the cleanup of terrorists with thudding thoroughness and violence. He came under fire in France for the "police state" operations of his network of 1,500 block informants, and the torture methods admittedly used by his men on captured Moslems...
...must be alert to avoid. To stimulate circulation, avoid kidney stones and prevent his joints from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with the distressing fact that he cannot control his bladder and bowels. Though he is taught automatic control, the adult must put up with what embarrasses the child: he is going...