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...most turn-sensing purposes, gyros work well enough, but they have serious faults. Neither the bearings on which they spin nor the gimbals on which they are suspended can be made entirely frictionless, and friction hurts their accuracy. So designers have longed for a turn-sensing instrument with no friction-plagued parts...
...well-scrubbed as one of his own radio heroes. P. & G. was in the advance guard of soap opera, helped start it on its interminable way more than 20 years ago with The Puddle Family. P. & G. writers were among the first to learn that the trick is to spin the story out to fantastic lengths, with a flood of tears to wash away every smile. This year, with 13 soap operas on the air, P. & G. is the biggest advertiser in the U.S., will spend an estimated $30 million in network radio and TV, $15 million in newspapers...
...Facing each other thus, from the pinnacles of the Eisenhower Administration, the two young Californians (Nixon, 40; Knowland, 45) were a sharp reminder of the breathtaking fortunes of politics. At the adjournment of the last Congress Knowland was the senior and Nixon the junior Senator from California. In the spin of a year their evident talents and a whirl of fate had made them national figures...
There was a malicious twist in the spin because-despite Knowland's warm words for the record-Dick Nixon and Bill Knowland have long been rivals, and there is a serious conflict between them. The two Californians raced to the pinnacles by quite different routes. Nixon is the son of a grocer in Whittier, in Southern California. A young lawyer-war veteran, he had little political background when a friend submitted his name to a citizens' committee which was seeking a candidate for Congress in California's Twelfth District in 1946. Knowland, son of a wealthy...
...week is arranged. Families haggle over whether Buddy or the breadwinner shall have the Snipe on Saturday afternoon, just as they have long haggled over whether Buddy shall have the car on Saturday night. Mothers take their nursing babes to sea with them, rather than miss a spin with the family. On Sunday mornings, when a good breeze is stirring the tops of the trees, wise churchmen with sailors in their congregations manage to keep their sermons short...