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Meanwhile, the McCormack campaign moved into high gear at the University yesterday as recruiting began for a Students For McCormack organization...
...well the hulls of submarines-including the subs that carry the Polaris missile-will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be detonated at high altitudes to check the effect on ground communications and radar. In previous tests, ionization caused by nuclear explosions wreaked havoc with electronics gear, raised the possibility that an enemy might try to knock out the electronic network of U.S. defenses by exploding warheads at high altitudes...
...ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
...Chrysler engine in a 1932 Ford (standard h.p.: 60), a 545-h.p. Chevrolet engine in a Volkswagen (standard h.p.: 45). Front-engine cars had their engines moved back on the frames to increase traction; useless headlights, bumpers, fenders, fans and fan belts were removed to lighten weight. Gear and axle ratios were changed for more "dig," and bodies were "channeled" or cut down to lower the center of gravity. Such rebuilding is costly ($1,500 to $10,000), but the results are spectacular: speeds up to 175 m.p.h.; quarter-mile sprints in less than...
...deep draw steel'' (used for shaped components such as car roofs and fenders), last year bought 10% of all its sheet steel from the U.S. And regardless of Germany's fame as a fine toolmaker, Volkswagen in 1961 bought $2.8 million worth of U.S.-made presses, gear cutters and other highly specialized machines...