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...planes are always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
Courage, says Frost, is the human vir tue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge, courage to make the best of what is here and not whine for more: "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." Frost is something of a philosophical an archist. Liberals and reformers move him to sly mirth. He has no confidence that the earth can be improved through social action or scientific gimcrackery: "One can safely say after from six to thirty thou sand years of experience that...
...dining halls can play their part in this bold new program by discriminating against both of the people who eat before eight o'clock, in the interests of the hordes who scratch and whine pitifully at the door at half past nine. Dining hall authorities admit this will not interfere with preparations for lunch; it will just be an adjustment to fact...
...children, accustomed to having their radio programs start off with the rattle of machine-gun fire or the whine of airplane propellers, might have trouble believing the news. A new BBC show for British moppets, called Listen With Mother, is a thoroughgoing success. The program begins each day with the calm, reassuring voice of onetime Schoolmistress Jean Sutcliffe inquiring: "Are you sitting quite comfortably...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...