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Landing airplanes on a carrier has always been tricky, and it gets trickier as airplanes get faster. Last week Britain's Royal Navy told about a new and reasonably prang-proof system for landing the fastest jets...
...soon the musical extravagances of bop began to wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...
...became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...
...recruiting Big Leaguers for their teams. Fairless was given the job of rounding up a team, the "Agathons." He managed it so well-smoothing" over the constant squabbling of the stars-that the Agathons won the league pennant. Fred Griffiths, impressed by Fairless' peacemaking talents, threw him a trickier pitch...
...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...