Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baruna was a boat to warm an old salt's heart. She liked it rough, with seas kicking up and a breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...University of Washington's Huskies seemed to belie their nickname. They were the tallest and skinniest of eleven crews that lined up at Poughkeepsie last week for the big race. Said shrewd Coach Al Ulbrickson: "As long as my crew averages 6 ft. 3, I never worry about weight." He found plenty of other things to worry about...
...atomic energy to aircraft. Since atomic fuel (plutonium or uranium 235) would have over two million times as much energy as gasoline, a "nuclear-powered" plane could fly on & on, round & round the earth. It could fly at its top speed all the time, and land with the same weight (and about the same amount of reserve fuel) that it took off with...
...good for stopping gamma rays," says Dr. Kalitinsky, "may not be the best when gamma rays and neutrons are considered together, and a material which is good for the innermost part of the shield may not be the best for the outer layers. There is, therefore, considerable room for weight reduction by ingenious design...
Born. To Maria Manton Riva, née Sieber, 23, plump onetime actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, and second husband William Riva, 28, Manhattan scenic artist: their first child (Marlene's first grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Michael. Weight...