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...fashioned remedy: complete radio silence and conventional, though strictly controlled, blind flying. By sticking tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost no discretion...
Produced for a doctoral thesis at Columbia University, the result is a huge black notebook composed of pages and pages of numbers-a coded guide to all 157 varieties of syllabic patterns in the Iliad's 112,000 words and 15,693 lines. McDonough can now say, for example, that the poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 lines or 40.42% of the total lines. Sample: 'Απολλων'(Apollo...
...Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...
...argues balding Sam Rosenfeld, 40, veteran chemistry teacher at Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. This week he published a 188-page blueprint titled 30 Days To A Higher I.Q. For Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...
Whether this wide and strange office will ever fit into the American pattern of compartmentalized efficiency remains to be seen. The incumbent, New York-born Alfred Rinaldi, a veteran tourist guide, is nervous as he puts on his frock coat with the traditional crossed keys and takes up his position behind the desk. Says he defiantly: "I will try to get to the bottom of any trouble there...