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...Chrysler said in its ads that torsion-bar suspension gave extra "ease in handling." In substantiation, it submitted a "braking attitude test chart" measuring results in "inches of front suspension jounce" and the outcome of a "dynamic beam and twist" test expressed in quantities of "first mode resonance." What do these terms mean? Chrysler did not explain...
...like the illness, remains in some ways mysterious. Explains Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky, a New York City psychiatrist who was one of the pioneers of electroconvulsive therapy in the U.S.: "We must admit that we are very successfully treating conditions of an unknown cause with treatments of an equally unknown mode of action...
...fact, Colas's provisions for the trip included a variety of French delicacies; farmers from his native Normandy provided Camembert, Pont l'Evêque and Livarot cheeses, pâté, tripe à la mode de Caen and a supply of Calvados. Even so, the voyage was no pleasure cruise. Pen Duick's living quarters are so cramped that even 5-ft. 6-in. Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope...
Students at Harvard and throughout the country groped for a new mode of protest against President Nixon's policy in Indochina this week, but the most noticeable thing about their initial efforts was a lack of organization...
...guidance systems must both be operational before a lunar landing can be attempted. The reason: if the command ship's engine cannot be controlled, the rocket power of the lunar lander is necessary to get the reunited ships back to earth. In fact, that so-called "life raft mode" was used to bring home the stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft two years...