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...means a lot for Marion to be a Marine. His father was in the corps, and his uniform still fits. The time is 1943, and a young man's honor is at stake. Waiting for an eastbound bus. Marion buys a drink for a full-fledged Marine Raider, who wears a skull-and-cross-bones patch on his sleeve and stares fixedly ahead, as if trying to make out messages on the liquor bottles. Marion listens to the Marine's reminiscences of battle, envies all his medals. The Raider is of a rather different frame of mind...
Traffic, normally accommodated by three lanes in either direction, will be channeled into the westbound side only, while the other section is being repaired. The eastbound side will then be opened for traffic and work will begin on the westbound side...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
...have apparently verified the clock paradox in a less dramatic fashion. Last October, carrying four extremely precise atomic clocks, they set off on two successive round-the-world plane trips to check the validity of Einstein's prediction (TIME, Oct. 18). Their scheme was elegantly simple. On the eastbound flight, their plane was traveling in the direction of the earth's rotation. Thus to an observer in outer space the airborne clocks would appear to be moving faster (their air speed added to the rotational velocity of the earth's surface) than a reference clock back...
...return to Washington, they had to feed into their final calculations the effect of the varying speeds, altitudes and flight paths of their planes. Yet all the time-consuming work paid off handsomely. According to theory, the four clocks should have lost 40 billionths of a second on the eastbound trip and gained 275 billionths of a second on the westbound. In fact, the actual results were only 5% off on the eastbound and no more than 30% on the westbound flight. Although the results may not be accurate enough to convince all skeptics, Hafele is satisfied. "The experiment...