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...front wheel acts like a stabilizing gyroscope. He attached a second front wheel, parallel to the first that did not quite touch the ground. It could thus be spun in the opposite direction of the standard wheel, canceling out the gyroscopic effect. Jones optimistically named his creation URB I (for Unridable Bicycle 1). But surprisingly enough it proved to be easily ridable...
...regular front wheel with a small furniture caster mounted directly in line with the steering-post axis so that turning would not shift the point of contact. Trouble was. the caster quickly became almost red-hot and could not negotiate bumps more than a half inch high. Jones abandoned URB 11 as inconclusive...
Nigerian Pressure. For all its low visibility, the conflict is brutally real. The Nigerian army in two years has expanded to 90,000 men. In the process, nearly 20,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded; many died because of in adequate medical care. In the Lagos sub urb of Yaba, a military hospital de signed for 120 patients is overwhelmed with 1,100 wounded...
...University of Illinois at Urb ana-Champaign, students tried several ways of disrupting the campus. About 200 of them, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society, staged a "grovel-in" in the driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs...
Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...