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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When cotton ceased to be king, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal took its place. The issue of federal v. state sovereignty was all but buried under the weight of federal dollars for public power, military installations, dams, forests and scads of pork-barrel projects. (In 1962 the U.S. Government poured $229 million in grants-in-aid into Alabama...
...meter sailboat is a specialized piece of handiwork, designed for speed, not for family fun. The 5.5s range from 28 ft. to 35 ft. in length, must conform to a complicated formula that requires each "plus" (larger sail area) to be balanced by a "minus" (heavier weight). Built in the U.S., a 5.5-meter hull costs about $15,000; designer's fees, tank tests and sails boost the bill another $5,000 or more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along at 8 knots. But a sailor is well...
Lebrun's figures are simple in the sense that they avoid detail and scrupulous realism, but they lack technical economy. Superfluous lines preclude maximum effects of weight and power, as well as any real linear grace. Despite the artist's great predilection and proven talent for drawing, he has conceived these figures in sculptural terms and consequently his line is most effective when he uses it to suggest volumes. When he uses line seemingly for its own sake, the results are less fortunate...
...Died. Still the plane was not perfect. At least one pilot was killed during flight tests. "We had eliminated extra weight, however we could," says Johnson. "We'd have sold our grandmothers for ten pounds, and the whole family for 25 pounds, but finally the ship was ready." Lockheed asked Air Force Hero Jimmy Doolittle, who was then a vice president at the Shell Oil Co., to have his company's experts concoct a fuel that would not evaporate at high altitude. Shell did. The results speak for themselves. Says Johnson: "We have an airplane getting four miles...
...says, "we have reared 105 species, and every one we have found is either a snail killer or a slug killer." Some of the larvae will kill only one particular species of snail; others eagerly attack almost any snail up to 19 times their own weight. Many scio-myzids are death for two of the three types of snails that carry schistosomiasis. The third snail host, prevalent in Formosa and the Philippines, has a limestone trap door inside its shell that mangles the attacking larva...