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...double-delta wing is a shrewd solution to the difficult problem of sustaining flight at three times the speed of sound while still providing good control for reasonably slow-speed loitering and landing. The broad, rear delta develops high lift at moderate speeds, but as a swept-wing plane moves faster, its center of lift shifts rearward towards the tail. If it is not counteracted in some way, this shift will make the plane dangerously nose heavy. A pilot might use his elevators to hold the nose up, but this maneuver would cause costly drag. The All licks the problem...
...unknown writer named Edward Dahlberg had the rare distinction of shocking D. H. Lawrence. After reading Dahlberg's defiantly proletarian first novel, Bottom Dogs, Lawrence predicted that its author's "next step is legal insanity." Instead, Dahlberg, now 63, became a poet, essayist, and shrewd, contentious critic who once said that he blamed T. S. Eliot "for nothing except the books that he has written." He calls Because I Was Flesh "an auto biography of my faults." It is the story of his first 46 years and of Lizzie, his mother, a Kansas City lady barber "with dyed...
...Droughts and floods in 1962 ruined the maize crop, forcing 500,000 Tanganyikans onto the famine rolls, gobbling up $6,000,000 earmarked for national development. Nyerere already had help from Britain and the World Bank, including a $67 million three-year plan designed by his British Finance Minister, shrewd, brilliant Sir Ernest Vasey. Nyerere also instituted a "selfhelp" program under which Tanganyikans donate one day a week to urgently needed projects...
Then, as now, matchless hordes of photographers lend their skills to the beautification of these pages. Then, as now, aggressive organization men increase their own and the CRIMSON'S solvency by shrewd dealing with local entrepreneurs...
...some-what unnerving. But this man, who has devoted forty years to getting things done, keeps his passions well below the surface. His pride is deep enough so that he does not have to swallow it when he must compromise. He is a steady and persistent man, with a shrewd understanding of people. Wilkins knows the facts of political life; if his placid exterior disturbs those who believe his cause demands anger, it is indispensable when, says, a conservative legislator must be cajoled into supporting a civil rights bill. Wilkins inspires respect and profound confidence, not emotional faith. After...