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...fortunes of the presidential candidates, according to the Gallup poll, are fluctuating as madly as cardiograms of young lovers in the Tunnel of Love. Last month, right after the G.O.P. Convention. Gallup reported that Dick Nixon had overtaken and had a commanding lead over his opponent, Jack Kennedy-50% to 44%-in the hearts of his voting countrymen. The poll caused jitters at Kennedy headquarters, some doubts amidst the jubilation in Nixon's camp, and considerable skepticism in the ranks of Washington commentators. Last week, a scant fortnight after his first poll, Gallup announced that Kennedy had moved...
WORLD'S LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...
...with piped music and two offices for INRA President Fidel Castro, INRA is running 1,392 collective farms, 2,000 "people's stores," 1,215 new schools, 15 fishing coops, 80 sewing schools, 1,000 "alphabetization centers" for adult illiterates. It even collects the tolls on the auto tunnel under Havana...
...material would be "ablated"-vaporized and blown away into nothingness by the intensely hot air through which it raced. Ablating cones promised a weight advantage, but not even the shock tube was adequate to test them at the research level. Therefore a new testing device, the arc wind tunnel, was tailored...
...wind tunnel, air is first pumped out of a big vacuum chamber. Then a valve is opened and new air rushes in. On its way, it passes through a flaming arc using kilowatts enough to light a city. The air's temperature soars to 14,000° F., and it whams into samples of ablating material that behave as if they were part of a real nose cone...