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...which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer Malcolm Kuhring, who is chairman of the committee. "The birds fly with tail winds; they fly the pressure patterns...
What is the best way to recruit a potential member, he asked. Do you gain their confidence and then tell them you're a Communist, or do you warn them you're a Communist first? Obviously, the latter method has the disadvantage of building an unnecessary barrier. On the other hand, spokesmen are desperately needed to disseminate information about the Party and make it more accessible to potential recruits. "One of the reasons I joined the Party," this undergraduate admitted, "was to find out what it did. Until I joined, almost no one dared to tell me much about...
...John Cooper Wiley, 73, U.S. diplomat, whose distinguished 38-year career took him from counselor of the first U.S. embassy in Soviet Russia in 1934 (among his subordinates: George F. Kennan, Charles Bohlen) to chargé d'affaires in Vienna, where he was one of the first to warn of Hitler's Anschluss, and on to ambassadorships in Colombia, Portugal, Iran and Panama, where in 1952 he negotiated a revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty to give Panama greater benefits from the waterway; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...vehicle combining a conventional internal com- bustion engine and an electric engine with batteries. In the country the car could be propelled by the internal combustion engine and at the same time charge up the batteries. At points on the highways ap- proaching metropolitan areas, signs would warn the driver to switch to electric propulsion. He would then have enough electric power to carry him in and around the metropolitan area. The unfortunate ones living in the smog area would have to rely on the home battery charger...
...interior, Architect Kruger was able to keep to his original elegant scheme. Fan-shaped legislative halls open onto a 60-ft.-high rotunda. Doors to dangerous service areas have abrasive-covered handles to warn the blind, and the Governor has a telephoto peephole to survey his anteroom. As for visitors who may want to know what an authentic Southwestern government house would look like, Santa Feans can still proudly point to the nearby 1610 Palace of the Governors, the oldest capitol in the U.S., a one-story Spanish colonial adobe structure that is the cornerstone of New Mexican style...