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...Science we report the story of a daring plane waiting to be built, now that a Government scientist has solved the trick of developing a fighter that can stretch its wings at low speeds, or fold them in the air like a peregrine falcon closing in for the kill...
...World War II: "This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." - On the Red-supported Greek civil war: "The uprising has to fold up. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States-the most powerful state in the world-will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm the cruel portrait drawn previously...
...Department of Defense is convinced that government scientists have finally turned the trick. Last week leaders of the U.S. aircraft industry were locked in fierce competition for the privilege of building a "variable geometry" fighter that can stretch its wings at low speeds during take-offs and landings, or fold them like the predatory falcon for highspeed flights...
...Wacker reported that the organism--grown either in light or in darkness--develops "profound and complex lesions" when the growth medium is deficient in the trace metal, zinc. Under such conditions, Dr. Walker noted, growth was severely limited and cell division was halted. The cell size increased eight-fold under conditions of extreme zinc deficiency...
...monocoque construction (lightening and tightening the body by eliminating a chassis frame) and its road-hugging independent suspension front and rear. Cruising speed for this fancy feline is a cool 120 m.p.h. But gadgetry is not a U.S. monopoly: Mark X's includes twin tables with mirrors that fold out into the rear seat, and an air-conditioning system that can deliver different measures of hot and cold to each passenger. The big new Facel Vega II from France has an instrument panel designed to turn anyone with $9,800 to spend into a Mitty-style jet pilot...