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When 500 hastily summoned foot and mounted police tried to force them back, the protest demonstration exploded into a savage, three-hour melee provoked partly by Communists in the crowd. Crying "Fascists" and "Gestapo,'' the workers dropped lighted cigarettes into police horses' mouths, tried to drag the cops from their mounts, hurled horse manure at them. Some young workers climbed onto the stone figures around the entrance, and one Communist agitator even hauled up a Red flag. When a police cordon forced them away from the buildings after six charges, hundreds of demonstrators staged a sitdown strike...
...Swiss-born Aerodynamicist Werner Pfenninger, the intricate tracery promises to be the first practical answer to a problem that is as old as airplanes: how to smooth out the turbulent air that burbles along the surface of a moving wing. Every airplane wastes some of its power overcoming the drag of that churning air, but not until modern planes moved up toward jet speeds did the drag demand a remedy. Slow planes can live with their own slight turbulence; a fast ship becomes a fuel-gulping monster as it fights the furious air waves that swirl and eddy over...
Northrop engineers, who have run thousands of hours of wind-tunnel tests, say that once the suction is started, there is smooth, laminar flow over both top and bottom of their new wing. Up to 80% of the friction drag is eliminated-and this figure includes compensation for the drag caused by the nacelles and for the power needed to run the turbines. With drag so drastically reduced, an airplane uses much less fuel, thus can fly farther or carry more payload. The null will not have its first flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making...
...clock on a hot, equatorial night, and the locals were living it up outside Passoni's Grocery Store on the potholed main drag of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Italian Settler Passoni, an enterprising sort, was raffling off boxes of groceries. Suddenly, a news bulletin from neighboring Kenya blared from a radio in a bar next door. An instant later, the guttural twitter that is the Somali tongue became an ominous muttering, and the crowd of 500 was on the rampage. Stoning cars, the Somalis marched to the British embassy, touching off three days of shouting, window-smashing riots...
While offering one of the largest and widest activities program of any House, Dunster vigorously maintains its tradition of "availability without compulsion." No one will come to your room, smash down your door to drag you to a House seminar or athletic event, but if you want to go you are always welcome...