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Every now and then, the Utah state legislature gets around to discussing whether the firing squad is backward and barbaric; the new state prison, erected in 1950, laid aside space that could do equally well for high voltage or for gas. In its 1955 session, the legislature passed a bill to install an electric chair and use it, but somewhere along the line the lawmakers balked at providing the appropriation. So, Don Jesse Neal was given his choice-but he added his own unique contribution to Utah firing-squad lore by firmly declining to choose. "There...
...Fast Stream. One of the disadvantages of the conventional turbojet engine is its lack of propulsive efficiency. The stream of hot gas from its tailpipe speeds backward much faster than the airplane is flying forward. Much of its energy is wasted in creating air turbulence. The efficiency would be greater if the speed of the gas stream were only moderately greater than the speed of the airplane. But conventional jet engines cannot slow their gas stream without losing efficiency in other ways...
...Dear friends," Red China's Red Cross assured the remaining P.W. turncoats, "you are also entirely free to leave China of your own will." With unaccustomed humility, Peking radio offered its explanation to the outside world. "China is an economically backward country which has just begun its construction . . . The standard of living cannot be raised rapidly. There are differences between the customs and ways of life of the Chinese people and the European and American people . . . the language difficulties . . . the marriage problem." Red China, adopting conciliatory tactics alongside the Russians beneath the low eaves of Western pressure, smoothly wished...
Paris Left-wing Franc-Tireur: How different are matters over here. What a different picture when we look at our backward employers, our divided workers, our outmoded routines, our old slogans which no longer convince anybody, and when we witness this forward movement in America, marked by technical progress and social justice...
...work in the schools. She took special training at the University of Chicago, then went back to New Orleans to start her real career. The only visiting teacher in town, she started out by concentrating on four schools. She talked to troubled pupils, tested the backward, visited broken homes, worked from early morning until late at night on every sort of problem that children are heir...