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Kibitzing Outer Bankers decided that Canipe was pixilated (their advice to him: go home), and for a while it seemed as if they were right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon...
A new electrically operated metal hand for victims of paralysis and for amputees with some types of artificial hands has been invented by Charles V. Giaimo, vice president of Lionel Corp. (toy trains). Manufactured on a nonprofit basis by Lionel, the glovelike device fits snugly over the thumb and forefinger...
Students from nearby Gettysburg College were engaged to handle the lights - six to move the towers, seven to handle heavy cables which were delivering 105 volts at 224 amperes, and two to keep guy wires out of camera vision. Lights, camera and sliding platform were then put through several trial...
Platform & Tender. A more advanced kind of platform is made only big enough to support the drilling machinery. The rest of the outfit, including crew quarters and all supplies, is carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung...
Seagoing oil engineers believe that these "permanent" platforms can survive any hurricane that should be expected in the next 50 years, but they are dangerous to ..erect except in a glassy sea. The critical moment is when the heavy jacket is lifted from the deck of the barge and set...