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Last week the Air Force issued a report on the tragedy. Its findings: NASA Test Pilot Joseph A. Walker, whose formation flying was rusty, inadvertently allowed the Starfighter he was piloting to drift into the air vortex swirling around the Valkyrie's drooping wingtip. From that moment, a crash was inevitable. Trapped in the raging eddies, the fighter brushed its tail plane against the Valkyrie's wingtip, then pitched up and rolled onto its back, shearing off one of the XB-70's twin rudders as it went. Both planes then plunged, out of control, to earth...
...second area involves mainly involuntary intrusions caused by the immense overcrowding and the ever-growing interdependence of civilization. The problem raised is psychological and social: How can life be conducted so that the individual will have a secure base of personal peace and dignity amid the vortex of modern existence...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
...national election-Mississippi being the worst, with two years. Many states also require unreasonably early registration; in Texas, it is necessary to pay a poll tax by Feb. 1, if one wants to be able to vote in November. Almost everywhere the voter is caught in a vortex of filling in forms and signing registration books. Many of these practices stem from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated 8,000,000 Americans were unable to vote in 1960 because of state residency requirements; they could have made a crucial...
...water goes down the drain clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Northern [Sept. 24]. We are on the Equator. If anyone wants to prove there is no vortex here, I invite him to visit our bathroom...