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...with a helicopter. The helioplane is a high-wing, 145-horsepower airplane with an over-large propeller, that can take off and land in an area the size of a large tennis court, can fly as slow as 27 miles per hour in perfect control, and cannot stall and spin under any circumstances...
...Aero-dynamicist George Rosen, tried all sorts of shapes. One design, intended to sidestep shock waves, had curved blades, quite like the swept-back wings of a fast modern fighter. Another had a blade with a pinched-in "waist." Some blades were short and broad so that they could spin rapidly without nearing sonic speed. All these designs proved unsatisfactory...
Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...
Bangkok's nightclubs are currently in the grip of a new dance craze. The ram-wong has spread to Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, and experts say it will hit the U.S. soon. It is a modernization of an ancient dance, in which couples curve back their fingers, spin and weave about each other, but never touch. King Phumiphon should love...
...which Button is considered to be without parallel. His tour de force, unduplicated by any skater in recent years, is a jump called the "double-double-axie." In this text, Button comes into the jump skating backwards, leaps into the air, and executes a two-and-a-half body spin. The complete maneuver covers about 30 feet...