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Supersonic Gatling Gun. Designed to kill in the split-second world of supersonic aircraft, a 20-mm. cannon that spews 8,000 shells a minute was announced this week by General Electric, co-developer with Army Ordnance of the gun for the Air Force. The cannon, nicknamed the Vulcan, has six rotating barrels that fire in succession, is patterned directly after the hand-cranked rapid-fire gun invented in 1862 by American Richard J. Gatling and used in the Spanish-American...
...Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude of trying to run a saloon on the south side of the Monongahela River, the elder McDonald finally went into the Jones & Laughlin rolling mill as a guide setter...
...famed annual air show. There, with his grey head tilted back over his immaculate white collar, he studied the performance of the flashy jet bombers and fighters on which his government will spend most of its defense money. Most spectacular of the zooming jet planes was a delta-wing Vulcan bomber, that slow-rolled over the field. "Would you like to fly home in one?" an official asked. "Yes, but no rolls," the Prime Minister said...
Test Pilot Roland Falk had been kidded by the press when he claimed he could roll his Vulcan, a delta-wing bomber the size of a big airliner. Last week, although scheduled only to make a low pass over the field, he rolled the great bomber like a jet fighter. Said a U.S. Air Force colonel: "I've never seen such a thing in my life." Said Falk: "I dared not ask them to let me do it. They might have said...
...Back to Vulcan. The metal sculpture school has roots as far back as Vulcan. Its immediate antecedent is constructivism, proclaimed by two Russian-born brothers, Naum Gabo (now in the U.S.) and Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...