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Harvard's $2,500,000 new Lament Library, now under construction, is a compromise-a kind of midway modern, which is streamlined enough to shock Cantabrigian purists (though the Harvard Yard is already a pleasant grabbag of Georgian, Greek Revival, Victorian and nondescript). Princeton, with its huge neo-Gothic halls already built, had, like Miami, gone all out for uniformity, but in the opposite direction. Its new $6,000,000 library was carefully designed to "fit in" on the campus...
Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...
Ghosts Know. The speed of sound! That magic and frightening quantity dominates the dreams of high-speed plane designers. It is no mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under...
...troublesome speed begins just below Mach I. When a wing is moving at, say, Mach .80, the air passing over it has to hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives too rapidly. The results are hard...
...gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions...