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...Weightlessness had long ceased, and the mounting overload pinned me to my seat. It kept increasing and was greater than during takeoff. The ship started to spin, and I informed the ground of this. But the spinning, which worried me, soon stopped, and the rest of the descent went normally. All the equipment had worked splendidly, and the ship was headed precisely for the selected landing area. At 10:55 the Vostok, having circled the globe, landed safely in a fallow plowed field of the collective farm, Lenin's Way, southwest of the city of Engels not far from...
When the air flows past an airplane's wings, it slips sideways past the tips and swirls into two twisting eddies that linger in the plane's wake for as long as a minute. Even after the airplane that made them is miles away, the eddies spin with surprising violence. A modern swept-wing jetliner, flying at 220 m.p.h. as it slows down approaching an airport, generates two twirling cornucopias of air with cores 22 ft. in diameter and outside layers rotating at 35 m.p.h...
...Villa Akhnaton, on Cairo's outskirts, newsmen found the host in a loquacious mood. Karl Henry von Wiegand had been a journalist before his guests were born, and he was eager to spin yarns out of his past. Inevitably, he remembered his 1914 interview with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...
...British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find in the hearts of the Jordanian people." But at week's end the Jordanian people seemed to have responded to the King's appeal for understanding. When Hussein took Toni for a spin in his open Mercedes 300, they were greeted with approving shouts and cheers...
...Randi Trio: Feelin' Like Blues (World Pacific). A first recording by a 24-year-old pianist who can clout the keyboard with macelike power or spin out feathery right-hand phrases with impressive speed. All the numbers-Summertime, Blues for Miti, Cheek to Cheek-not only swing but bounce, suggesting that Randi would be wise to reach occasionally for the soft pedal...