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...Closet. The Instrumentation Laboratory's most important technological advance in building the jam-proof navigational system was the development of the Hermetic Integrating Gyro (HIG), a 3-in. long package containing a gyroscope spinning at 12,000 r.p.m. in an inner cylinder pivoted on virtually friction-free bearings and floated in a heavy liquid. Three HIGs -one to "memorize" each coordinate of a point'on an imaginary star line at take-off -and three accelerometers (to measure change of speed in each direction) are fixed to a gimbals-mounted, free-swinging platform unaffected by changes in the plane...
...three in the morning when Vag strode into the room on Thursday. Having placed his water skis above the fireplace and his aqua-lungs in the closet, he greeted me; "Gad but it is disgusting to be back...
...broom closet still had its Taft campaign portraits up, we noticed, as we stumbled into a conference of two legal minds who were batting out their indifferences before the assembled multitude...
...this-the low blood pressure and the $20 prosperity-is Normalcy, will it last? Looking straight at the big question mark, the middle-aged momentarily see the ghost of the '30s like an old roll-your-own cigarette machine back in the closet. But for the active executive, as for the active consumer, the question usually brings only a healthy caution or a moment's discomfort. "I don't find anybody really scared," says one steelman, "but there is plenty of studied concern...
Bone Is Unattractive. The relationship between Christian Dior and Seventh Avenue is based on mutual need. Ten years ago last month Dior brought out the New Look and Seventh Avenue joyfully discovered that every dress in every closet in the U.S. had been outmoded at one stroke. Every year since then, Seventh Avenue has looked to Dior to do it again. Dior duly assumed the accents proper to a dictator. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women." He banished knees: "This part is never...