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...face a new challenge to tax their ingenuity: the thermal barrier. At speeds contemplated for the near future, tough aluminum will lose much of its strength because of friction-generated heat (titanium will replace it for many uses). Cockpit canopies of today's materials will soften like putty; present-day electronic equipment may fail. The U.S. will have its hands full keeping ahead on such problems. Despite the success of the Sabre in Korea, Kindelberger does not underestimate the mechanical ability of the Russians. Says he: "Our conception of the Russian is crazy. We've thought...
Ever since Kon-Tiki, the publishing tide has run strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride...
Unfortunately, it is in his analysis of contemporary American attitudes about happiness that Professor Jones is weakest. He fails not so much from lack of insight as from lack of space--only thirty pages are devoted to present-day "techniques of happiness," as he calls them...
...used Mr. Conant's general head shape, a popular present-day size and evidently of sturdy construction--also some of his hair, one of his ears and the set of his mouth; Mr. Lowell's mustache, one of his eyes, his chin and his cellar (and I have no reason to doubt the one in the photo--that the CRIMSON sent--is his own, contrary to rumors from New Haven); Mr. Eliot's nose for nostalgic reasons, one eye and his virile hirsuteness...
...Society will, however, carry on its program unofficially. "Our most important function now is to undertake a complete rethinking of the socialist position in relation to the economic, political, and social realities of the present-day American scene," said Langston...