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Airplanes were still in pinfeathers when Rudyard Kipling wrote his stirring turn-of-the-century story. With the Night Mail, and filled the fictional skies over the Atlantic with swift craft propelled by a vaguely described "Fleury's Ray." Present-day jetliners are already three times as fast as Kipling's night flyers, but his imaginative planes may soon have ray-driven descendants in space. Last week Republic Aviation Corp. demonstrated a "plasma pinch'' space engine that uses magnetic force to spit out a fierce blue flash of electrified particles- a 20th century version of Fleury...
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will get a chance to learn more about the present-day CRIMSON on Monday and Tuesday, when convivial after-dinner meetings will open the 1961 fall competition. All four boards -- News, Editorial, Business, and Photography -- welcome undergraduates who would like to try their hand at newspaper work. The free beer will start flowing at 7:30 both nights in the Crimson building at 14 Plympton...
...chair will honor the late Bronson Crothers '05, former Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School. Dr. Crothers' work forms the basis for present-day treatment of cerebral palsy. Soon after World War I he established one of the nation's first neurological hospital units for children...
...Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection on certain trends in present-day composition...
Just as the early towers of Italy symbolized something to the designer, so our present-day skyscrapers must usually incorporate more than mere novelty to be lasting, according to Creese...