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...from nowhere and floated weightless around the cabin: Carpenter picked it out of midair. Approaching Guaymas, Mexico, on his first orbit, Carpenter tried one of the major experiments of his flight: he deployed a 30-in. balloon from his capsule on a nylon line to see what kind of drag it would have in the near vacuum of space. But the experiment was ruined when the multi-colored balloon inflated only partially...
...predicts that the decline will drag on another two months, probably drifting down to 570 on the Dow-Jones. "I try to discourage investors from buying market leaders as they hit new highs," he says. "Too often the highs are death rattles. The really sophisticated investors are liquidating at each rally." Most impressive argument offered by the bears to support their position lay in the hard-won new realism of ordinary investors about growth and the price-earnings ratio. From now on, says Bache's Gordon, "prices of stocks will not increase unless we can really see proof...
Early airplane designers did not have to worry about changing their wings in flight. The straight, thick wings that got their ships off the ground served equally well in low-speed flight. But as airplanes became faster, their wings had to be thinned down and shortened to cut drag at high speed. And since thinner, shorter wings have less lift, the new fast planes needed longer runs to get them off the ground. When airplane speeds were boosted by jet engines, designers resorted to swept-back wings, which function better up near and above the speed of sound...
Stone and Mr. Michel Singher, the musical director, keep everything going at a good clip, so that a very long show doesn't drag. Mr. Lewis H. Smith was responsible for the costumes, and he, too, must be praised: they are very colorful and dashing...
...Inexperience is a drag." said Oscar -and got to work again. Now deep into a second musical. Oscar writes all morning, sings most of the night. His voice has found only a rented room in the range it occupies, but he has such command over it that he can blithely abandon any melodic confines and sing out with a freedom possessed by no other jazz singer except Ray Charles...