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With the usual whiff of flackery, commuters making the maiden voyage were given life memberships in the Commuter Yacht Club, entitling them to be "piped aboard upon returning home after a hard day at the office; to demand inordinate quantities of lime in gin and tonic as a prevention against scurvy; to address the cruiser pilot as 'Mr. Christian.' " Burbled one enchanted voyager: "What's Venice got on Chicago...
...Strut. Nowadays, an American mother need not riffle through her Spock with alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer. When she begins walking around the living room sticking out her chest, mother should know that her daughter has merely caught a whiff of a booming mania, and that soon the child will become a drum majorette...
...engine to provide the massive thrust that is needed to free a heavy rocket from the earth's gravitation. Engines designed for use after a vehicle has been lofted into orbit need only a little thrust, but they must exert it for a long time, using only a whiff of fuel. Alfred E. Kunen, director of Republic's Plasma Propulsion Laboratory, explained that the plasma pinch engine will get its electricity from solar cells and store it temporarily in a battery. When thrust is needed, the engine can work continuously for months or years, consuming only a small...
...1930s, the Depression economics of Britain's John Maynard Keynes modified classical doctrines, but it still had a whiff of the "dismal science" about it: the internal dynamism of the capitalist economy was gone forever, as Keynes saw it, and permanent government manipulation would be needed to keep the economy from sinking into stagnation. Even after the splendid performance of the U.S. economy in World War II (in part because of planning, in part in spite of it), economists tended to take a melancholy view of what lay ahead, predicted massive transitional unemployment. It was against this somber background...
...around the country, but a grimness hovered over the meeting. Only three weeks before the showdown, Richard Nixon's campaign was in trouble. His basic campaign theme-maturity and experience to cope with Khrushchev and keep the peace-had failed to stir any surge among the voters. The whiff of recession in the autumn air was weakening the second half of the G.O.P. "peace and prosperity" claim. Most worrisome of all was the mounting evidence of a wide Roman Catholic swing to Democrat Jack Kennedy in the big industrial states. The Kennedy camp, groaned a Nixon aide after...