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After briefly explaining that the Business School Alumni Association couldn't compete with the Old Alma Mater (because she could tug at your heart-strings), Mr. Hanley reminded his audience that the Business School Alumni Association was offering something else-contacts...
...suits-nylon coveralls with air bladders mounted at the abdomen, thighs and shins. All five bladders are interconnected, and, in the cockpit, they are attached to an air pump. The flow of air to the G-suit is regulated by a weighted valve spring. The same G forces that tug at the pilot move the valve spring. As air is admitted to the G-suit, its bladders become tourniquets, preventing the blood from pooling in, the blood vessels of legs and belly...
...smoky Saar basin, a tiny wedge of the Rhine valley on the Franco-German frontier. Barely larger (743 sq. mi.) than Allegheny County, Pa., though its population (900,000) is the densest in Europe, the Saar has both strategic position and rich mineral resources, and it has been a tug-of-war ground for centuries...
...Want You (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) borrows its message as well as its title from a recruiting poster. The picture shows the impact of the Korean War on a movie-typical U.S. middle-class family and concludes tearfully that home ties must yield to the tug of patriotic duty. Producer Sam Goldwyn coats this sternly real subject with a shiny glaze of sentimentality...
...weather, but within minutes the Keith's radio operator was picking up new gale warnings. Carlsen and Dancy moved higher, scrambled up to the captain's office on the starboard side. At 10 a.m. next morning, the storm was still blowing at gale force. Another tug, the Dexterous, arrived from Falmouth to help; the radio began crackling out urgent messages...