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...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...
...Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...
Even veteran444 anti-Red Congressmen have been smirking uncontrollably at the rhetoric got off in recent House debates about examining federal employees' loyalty. Because for one thing, the deity complex called Atomic Security cannot be invoked as justification for the current bill. All employees in "sensitive" areas have been checked and surveyed till one wonders why they are allowed to mate, since their children may through some idealogical mutation prove subversive. And since the State, Army, and other security-involved departments are screened, then verified by the FBI, the main direct threats are already taken care...
Despite his complex deals, Murchison is no round-the-clock grind. In his 20-room mansion near Dallas, he likes to give big parties in a bar whose walls are sheathed in gleaming tarpon scales. Murchison takes off his tie, rolls up his sleeves, and invites his guests to do likewise. He keeps a six-seater converted C-47 (complete with bar, three couches and card table) to whisk him back & forth from his 120,000-acre Mexican ranch, where he goes to hunt and fish. And his way of announcing his arrival at home is to bellow...
...thump verse Auden has returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden has created characters who are not only types...