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Like the oxygen mask, the pressure cabin, electrically heated flight gear and the ejection seat, the purpose of the G-suit is to match the pilot to his high-speed environment. The fact is that the fragile human frame is fast becoming the structural limit to the speed of aircraft. Aircraft designers are already talking of interceptors that will scream through the upper atmosphere at more than 1,500 miles an hour. They are sure that one of their toughest problems will be to beef up the pilot so that he can stand the trip...
...weekend will start off in high gear with is form on "Diverse Views on Foreign Policy" at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. William L. Shirer, noted commentator, will analyze both the Democratic and Republican viewpoints, James Phimney Baxter III, president of Willias College, will outline the G.O.P. stand, Fiedrecik L. Schuman, professor at Williams, will present an independent view, and John Crider, Pulitzer Prize winner and radio analyst, will moderate...
Briefly the plot has to do with the machinations of the mistress (Dorothy Stickney) and her cohort (Lulla Gear) in trying to get the husband (Neil Hamilton) to divorce the wife (Jean Dixon). Since the management takes great pains to shroud the denouncement in secrecy, I would't give it away; suffice it to say that it is unrealistic and unsatisfying. The acting was on the whole good, particularly that of Miss Stickney and Mr. Hamilton, until the last act when no one quite seemed to know what the author had in mind. Donald Oenslager's one set was admirable...
Trucks were bunched on the hill. Hall wanted to land in the right lane where a truck had seen the plane and stopped traffic. A line of trees prevented him, however. He tried the center strip, but the landing gear hit a west-bound trailer truck and the plane nose-dived into the highway...
Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...