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Dr. Eldib takes sewage as it comes from the treatment plant, still heavily contaminated with detergents, and pipes it into a vertical cylinder. Air blown through fine holes in the bottom of the cylinder stirs up billions of bubbles that rise through the sewage and attract the detergent molecules. The...
A Dot Is a Rock. Probably no artists ever followed so severe a technique as the Chinese, and no instrument of art has ever been devised as sensitive as the Chinese brush. In calligraphy, no matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to...
Currently, Fokker has a bulging backlog, including orders to build under license from Lockheed 350 F-104 Starfighters for the Dutch and West German air forces. The company is also developing a vertical-takeoff supersonic bomber, in conjunction with Republic Aviation, which two years ago acquired one-third of Fokker...
Some time this year, NATO is supposed to select a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) plane, and even though Britain's P.1154 has a clear jump on the field, officials already are worried. "The U.S. could ask everybody to hold off and wait for theirs," said one Briton...
Ever since Ford introduced its highly successful four-seater Thunderbird in 1958, Detroit has been speculating on when General Motors would bring out a competitor. Buick ended the speculation last week when it unwrapped its big-fendered Riviera hardtop, which is firmly dedicated to the G.M. principle that if you...