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...opinion the type of soldier (a very tiny proportion of the Army) who drifted in the Los Angeles terror mobs suffers from an inferiority complex. Regimented, and in his drab same uniform, he resents the attention the zooter is paid when garbed in his nonmilitary, free-choice, albeit outlandish, getup. . . . This type of soldier has a subconscious bitterness towards all civilians, fostered by labor strikes which are played up by the press, and against capital which they imagine is making millions while they, poor souls, are the "goats...
Proud, precise Sperry Corp., manufacturer of gyroscopes and fantastically complex instruments for war and peace, had special reason for pride this week: Army authorities permitted it to release details and photographs of its Automatic Computing Sight-the magic gimmick which goes a long way toward explaining the phenomenal defensive strength of U.S. bombers against enemy fighter planes...
...highly secret) for two years, the gun sight is a compact assembly incorporating an optical system, a small range finder and a complex instantaneous computing machine. Only arbitrary adjustment on it is a dial which the gunner sets for the wingspread (in feet) of the attacking plane. After that he frames the plane between illumined reticules (cross hairs or similar lines imposed on the field of vision), in a mirror on the sight, and keeps it framed there. He tracks it with the handle controls of his power-operated turret. When the enemy plane fills the space between the lighted...
Fast-moving, complex in its interweaving of politics and crime, Somebody at the Door has the uneasy fascination of a puzzle some of whose parts are missing...
...pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran fed to animals...