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...return to its base, the XFY-1 will rear back into a nose-up attitude; then it will sink gently to its landing space. Convair engineers are confident that it can do this even on a rolling, pitching freighter plunging through dirty weather...
...Victoria, B.C., Biologist Paul H. D. Parizeau, investigating "grey ash" found on car windshields, blamed Radiolaria. His argument: these single-celled animals live in countless billions in the sea. When they die, their silicic, spherical skeletons sink to the ocean floor, form a radiolarian ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...
...University itself has not helped the full return of tutorial in depriving tutors of free lunch meals in their Houses. Dean Bender, an ardent supporter of tutorial, has said if he had ten million dollars to sink into any one project at the present time, he would unhesitatingly choose to use it to bolster tutorial...
...sure that the actor who "looks camera left" in the main scene is still doing so when his face is alone on the film). He peered at the "Moviola," the machine film cutters use in their harried inspections. He quizzed sound men as they muttered of click tracking and sink. He remembered an axiom of motion picture musical directors : "A woman will cry even if the music is bad, but if it's good you might make her husband...
Some time after hours one day last week, a band of vandals broke into Manhattan's Junior High School 52 for a lively round of delinquents' sport. They plugged up a sink on the top floor, turned on the faucets and let a flood of water spread throughout the building. They invaded a science classroom, smashed its vials, overturned desks, scattered papers and exhibits over the floor. They sprayed halls and corridors with fire extinguishers, partly burned a school banner, slashed furniture in a teachers' lounge, spattered paint through two classrooms, tore up books in the library...