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...Canada's barren backlots is a small area where the compass needle, properly suspended, points directly downward. This phenomenon does not usually terrify observers: they know that they are standing on the north magnetic pole, the umbilicus of the earth's magnetic field. When the magnetic pole changes its location, as it does, the needles of all the world's compasses shift a little...
...Dealing Senator James M. Tunnell thought that his G.O.P. opponent, poultry farmer John J. Williams, would continue to be what the Democrats had labeled him-"the man no one knows." Williams fooled them. With a vigorous, personal campaign he had forced Democrats to revise their early, cocksure predictions downward. Odds now: 60-to-40 for Tunnell...
...speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...
...thunderstorm begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
...according to Haines, 24 to 25 inches wide; while the barges are a welcome four inches wider. Another important difference is the so-called "false keel." This is a six foot long stabilizing fin on the bottom of the barge. The false keel projects about three or four inches downward...