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...first step everyone took in cleaning up was to drag all their possessions out of their homes and pile them in great muddy heaps in the streets. One could usually identify stores by the kind of merchandise stacked outside, if by little else. Many people appeared to ignore their damaged belongings, to cast them off forever. Others compulsively hosed and scraped items like radios and hair dryers which would obviously never work again...
Inventory. In most sections of the country, a bleak and occasionally despairing mood has settled over party regulars contemplating a McGovern nomination. Their disconsolate argument is that McGovern, besides losing the presidency to Richard Nixon in November, may drag other Democrats down to defeat with him, possibly costing the party control of state legislatures, courthouses, the U.S. Senate and even the House...
...speed Ektachrome film that enable photographers to shoot movies indoors with no special lighting. In fact, the cameras produce adequate close-in pictures even when the only lighting is the candle power of a lit-up birthday cake. The bother of setting up floodlights has previously been the main drag on sales of movie cameras, which are now used by only 13% of U.S. families...
...with a single elliptical-shaped wing that would pivot on the fuselage. During takeoff, the wing would be set at right angles to the fuselage to provide maximum lift. But as the plane approached supersonic speed, the wing would be pivoted by about 45 ° to reduce drag, making the craft resemble a flying pair of scissors...
This bizarre "antisymmetrical" configuration, Jones contends, is superior to the familiar swing-wing design of, say, the Air Force F-l I I or the Navy F14, or the fixed-wing design of the British-French Concorde. Although drag is decreased when the wings of these aircraft are angled back, he says, another aerodynamic factor comes increasingly into play. At supersonic speeds, the swept back wings create noticeable pressure on each other; Jones likens the interference effect to that created when two motorboats speed alongside each other and waves from the bow of one boat slam into the hull...