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...great advantage of the hyperbolic paraboloid is that, because of a rather devious characteristic of the surface, a carpenter building the form does not have to bend his wood. "I am not a mathematician," Mr. Candela asserts, "and this is difficult to explain." Perhaps the easiest way to understand the principle is to remember that at any point on a saddle a straight line may be drawn which does not leave the surface, as it would, for example, with a sphere. And where the geometrician can draw straight lines, the carpenter can nail planks...
Brother Countries. In the devious rhetoric of Communism, Khrushchev was speaking plainly enough. His blasts against the "antiparty" group, which has long since been put out of action, and against little Albania were really aimed at Red China. The presumed differences: Peking's familiar "Stalinist" demands for more militancy against the West and less talk of peaceful coexistence, and its striving for Chinese pre-eminence over Moscow in Asian affairs. A sign of Russian worry over Red China's ambition came last week in one of those veiled moves that can have considerable significance in the Communist world...
...Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...long been a bone of contention. It hampers Government borrowing in periods of tight money, when investors are tempted by nonfederal issues that offer a higher rate of interest. In 1959. former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson considered the discount as a legal escape hatch but rejected it as devious-an opinion prompted by his inability to get a change through a Democratic Congress...
...Yale desperately planned a play, the confident Crimson contemplated its victory party at the other end of the gym. The fans, still unaware of the devious Harvard plot, waited intently in anticipation of the final play...