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...planes that took off from the Dallas Naval Air Station last week looked like a pair of elephants doing a mid-air pas de deux. Their wings were tilted vertically, while their four turbo prop engines blasted so much prop wash straight downward that they kept pieces of trash flying in all directions around the field. Back and forth they rocked, 50 ft. above the ground, when suddenly they stopped and hovered in the 10-m.p.h. wind. Ungainly as they looked, the pair of XC-142As were the first large U.S. military transports to demonstrate a helicopter-like capability...
Free, for a While. Once pollination is over, the insect is usually permitted to fly free, if only to be victimized by another flower. One erect and fleshy trap flower lets its prisoner fall out by merely drooping its blossom downward. The male part of the jack-in-the-pulpit allows mosquitoes to escape by opening a small hatch. But the mosquito had better be alert; its otherwise identical female part has no such escape hatch...
Pound's work was based on the change of frequency in gamma rays--or "red shift"--as they travel upward or downward in a 75-foot column...
Shortages Ahead. Power nationalization has only compounded Italy's many economic woes. It has scared off investment in industry, helped to send the stock market into a sharp downward spin and contributed to a marked slowdown in Italy's industrial growth. ENEL now faces the task of continuing a high-voltage expansion program just when money is scarce and it is burdened with annual compensation payments of $350 million to private industry. Last week ENEL was forced to turn to foreign markets in an effort to borrow the money it badly needs...
Kiss Me, Stupid. The careers of Producer-Director Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...