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...drawing boards will soon be moving at more than 1,500 m.p.h. At such high speed, say aeronautical engineers, friction between air and airplane will build a wall of heat-a "thermal barrier"-that will grow worse as planes fly faster. Their metal may soften like the wax in the wings of Icarus when he flew too near...
...expected chunks have been but dribbles. The Fund garnered only one million, six hundred thousand last year, and it is extremely doubtful that corporations will wax more generous in the future. Corporations don't have even alumni interest in the medical schools. It would hardly be profitable for them to pay the entire and bill just to escape their share of the taxes when federal aid begins...
According to McNiff, a tape recording machine will be installed in the Woodberry Poetry Room as early as July. It will operate on the same principle as the Poetry Room turntables used for listening to wax recordings...
...Killer. A floor wax that kills bugs and crawling insects but is harmless to humans was announced nationally by the Freewax Corp. of Tallahassee, Fla. Price per quart...
...such items as sphygmo-oscillometers, Eskimo handicraft, canned rattlesnake meat, Easter-egg dye, truffles, cat beds, wigs, shoehorns, comb cleaners and incense burners. Last week it broadened the vistas of free enterprise. It removed price ceilings on "clay targets used in artificial shooting" and on "non-edible foods," e.g., wax apples and bananas...