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Free Europe has a heavy traffic in enters""strolling who charac have stories to tell, says Gibbs. Some are genuine refugees; others are semiprofessional liars who have learned that "the best way to turn a fast buck is to spin a fast story." Because any one of them may have the clue to some important news development, every one of them is important to the correspondent. His first b is to screen the storytellers-some-,,_Qmes a near impossible task. Many a tipster has no more identification to 'offer than a face, a voice and a doubt ful name...
...most obvious method, favored by Gyrodyne, is to put a small wing and one or more propellers on a conventional helicopter. After the craft is in the air, the rotor is disconnected from the engine and the propellers take over. The rotor continues to spin, driven by the air rushing past it, like the rotor of an autogiro.* This "windmilling" supplies some lift; the wing provides the rest...
...some sort of jet. One possibility is small ram-jets on each blade tip to push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...Government project) was in charge of the great machine. Since then, the meson beam has played like an unseen searchlight around the flank of the cyclotron, lighting up dark corners of atomic physics. The mass of the quick-vanishing pi meson has been measured accurately, as well as its "spin," which is something like rotation. Dr. James Rainwater, the present boss of the cyclotron, is finding out what happens when mesons hit protons, neutrons, or other atomic particles. He hopes that a slight improvement in the cyclotron's internal apparatus will increase its meson yield 1,000 times...
...must tell you a feat of my dog Beau," he could write to a friend in the daytime hours-and then spin a pleasant story about how his dog had jumped into the river to bring him a water lily. The same night, he might be visited by one of his apocalyptic visions-mind-freezing apparitions that shrieked in his ears: "Actum est de te; perusti! [It is all over with thee; thou hast perished...